The Cambridge Dictionary recently updated its entries for “man” and “woman” to include transgender people – the latest dictionary to broaden its lexicon to reflect evolving language around gender. A ...

As slang finds its way into lexical institutions, experts ponder its place on the internet. By Julia Carpenter There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when ...

Are you greenwashing? How much sleep debt do you have? If you're unfamiliar with those terms you're probably not the only one, but they're now recognized by the most famous online dictionary.

The Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced website that records new words and their meanings. It began life in 1999 as a parody of Dictionary.com but has since become an important resource on the Web.