Grayson Perry’s “coruscating repartee”, a silky head of hair used to “coruscating effect”, and a “coruscating verdict” expected from the privileges committee. Which one of these references from the ...

Which word has the most definitions in the English language? Here's a hint: the word is only three letters long, can be a noun or a verb, and has more than 600 senses (or meanings), according to the ...

The dictionary isn’t forever. Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed.

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.

Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary has been updated to include 150 new words and definitions this year, its publisher announced this morning. In fact, according to Merriam-Webster, the first ...

The English language is, indeed, a quirky one: it's notoriously difficult to learn, and often words have more than one meaning. Some of these words are called homographs. They're spelled identically ...