Merriam-Webster has announced a major update to its “Collegiate” dictionary, adding over 5,000 new words.

Oxford University Press has named “rizz″ as its word of the year to highlight the popularity of a term used by Generation Z to describe someone’s ability to attract or seduce another person.

Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.”.

Oxford Dictionaries has announced its 2022 word of the year: “goblin mode.”.

In recent years, an international team of linguists partnered with Merriam-Webster to analyze a decade’s worth of words.

The Chiefs have won a record six straight AFC West titles and will be hosting their record fourth straight AFC title game when Cincinnati visits Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday.

It's an omnipresent truth: Merriam-Webster has declared vaccine its 2021 word of the year.

Dad bod, amirite, TBH and FTW are now dictionary-appropriate.

Merriam-Webster has added 455 new words to its venerable dictionary.

Over time, we were pandemic baking and pandemic dating and rescuing pandemic puppies from shelters. All of which led Dictionary.com on Monday to declare “pandemic” its 2020 word of the year. For about half the year, it was in the top 10% of all our lookups.”Another dictionary, Merriam-Webster, also selected pandemic as its word of the year earlier Monday. Kelly said pandemic beat out routine lookups usually intended to sort more mundane matters, such as the differences between “to, two and too.”“That's significant,” Kelly emphasized. The pandemic as an event created a new language for a new normal.”Lexicographers often factor out routine lookups when evaluating word trends.

Over time, we were pandemic baking and pandemic dating and rescuing pandemic puppies from shelters. All of which led Dictionary.com on Monday to declare “pandemic” its 2020 word of the year. For about half the year, it was in the top 10% of all our lookups.”Another dictionary, Merriam-Webster, also selected pandemic as its word of the year earlier Monday. Kelly said pandemic beat out routine lookups usually intended to sort more mundane matters, such as the differences between “to, two and too.”“That's significant,” Kelly emphasized. The pandemic as an event created a new language for a new normal.”Lexicographers often factor out routine lookups when evaluating word trends.

Merriam-Webster is revising its definition of racism after a Missouri woman's emails claimed it fell short of including the systemic oppression of certain groups of people. "It's not just disliking someone because of their race," Mitchum wrote in a Facebook post. "This current fight we are in is evidence of that, lives are at stake because of the systems of oppression that go hand-in-hand with racism." "This second definition covers the sense that Ms. Mitchum was seeking, and we will make its wording even more clear in our next release," he said. (This story was originally published by CBS News on June 10 at 6:27 a.m. PT)RELATED CONTENT:Gayle King Talks Racism in America and Worrying About Her SonPorsha Williams Recalls Her First Experience with Racism at Age 6Rachel Lindsay Calls for 'Bachelor' to Acknowledge Systemic Racism