Leading online reference announces more than 15,000 changes, intended to foreground people over clinical language Dictionary.com is making major changes to more than 15,000 of its definitions, from ...

The definitions that are given to words affect how we perceive them and popular phases show social attitudes and shape our understanding of the world. 2020 has been a year ripe with social change and ...

Merriam-Webster, the venerable dictionary publisher, announced last week that it would update its definition of the word “racism” in response to a request by a 22-year-old woman from Missouri. But ...