Oxford chose the word of the year from a short list of words that were all related to the environment. "It reflects it was a real preoccupation of the English-speaking world in 2019." Recent words of ...

Goblin mode refers to "a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations," according to The Oxford ...

Unprecedented times beget unprecedented updates to the English language. That’s the major takeaway from the Oxford University Press — the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) — in its ...

It's been the year of "rizz," "rizzing up," and the often self-proclaimed "rizzler." The Oxford English Dictionary even declared it 2023's word of the year. The word is derived from "charisma," ...

The 2010s have been such a wide-spanning, exhausting decade that it seems almost outrageous to confine the past 10 years to just a few words. These words range from possibly trivial — "on fleek" and ...

The Oxford Dictionary's choice for 2025's Word of the Year perfectly describes our perpetual online hissy fit, columnist ...

Great news, everyone! The Oxford English Dictionary has finally — finally — added a verb form to its definition of “clatfart.” That’s right. The noun we all love, meaning “gossip,” is now also a verb ...

Earlier this year, Oxford University Press changed its entry for "woman" in its dictionaries to include more positive ways to describe a female. Shutterstock (CNN) -- Even the dictionary can be sexist ...

Oxford University Press has changed the definition of the word "woman" in its dictionaries after an online petition called on them to remove "sexist" language. Oxford lexicographers examined ...