The Jewish tradition of debate is at the center of a new chamber opera about two scholars clashing over a Yiddish dictionary ...

Alex Weiser and Ben Kaplan's "The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language" tells the story of a battle to preserve a lost ...

Obsolete (adj.): no longer in use or no longer useful ...

To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the ...

Johnson defined ‘oats' as "a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people"-but ...

The word “lewk” was added to Cambridge this year, three years after it was added to Merriam-Webster and more than a decade ...

While most people might think of hallucinating as something that afflicts the human brain, Dictionary.com actually had artificial intelligence in mind when it picked "hallucinate" as its word of the ...

"Demure" is Dictionary.com's word of the year, with all the credit for its popularity going to lifestyle and beauty influencer Jools Lebron and her catchphrase, "very demure, very mindful." "Demure" ...

Skibidi,” pronounced SKIH-bih-dee, is one of the slang terms popularized by social media that are among more than 6,000 additions this year to the Cambridge Dictionary.

Skibidi, broligarchy, inspo, delulu, and more terms have officially joined the Cambridge Dictionary in its growing list of new 2025 words.