After women of color called them out online, Dictionary.com is changing their definition of the word "black." (Credit: Dictionary.com) What is the definition of the word “black?” According to Dictionary.com, the synonyms associated with the word range ...

Dictionary.com has named "67" its 2025 Word of the Year, a slang term popularized by Gen Alpha on social media and in schools. Originating from a song and amplified by basketball highlights, the ambiguous number has become a cultural shorthand,

"Full Measure" host Sharyl Atkisson looks into how political activists manipulate the meanings of words to achieve social and propaganda goals. "One example is the word 'Migrant.' For decades, 'migrant' commonly referred to foreigners temporarily coming to ...

Debate in the courts over the legality of Trump's deployment of troops to U.S. cities has centered on the definition of the word rebellion, with judges and lawyers looking to one legal reference book to parse the law.

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 year. "Hallucinate" has entered the mainstream recently ...

Sexist synonyms for "woman" in the Oxford Dictionary of English galvanized more than 30,000 people to sign a petition calling for their removal. A Change.org petition started in June by London-based communication strategist Maria Beatrice Giovanardi ...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the animal rights organization, is calling on Dictionary.com to change its definition of the word "animal," claiming that the current definition creates a "human-supremacist" distinction between humans ...

Screenshot of the online reference dictionary Merriam Webster showing the definition of racism on Wednesday, June 10, 2020. (Credit: Courthouse News) MANHATTAN (AFP) — The American reference dictionary Merriam-Webster will change its definition of the ...

The claim: Image shows Wikipedia changed its definition of "definition" Definitions of key words generated debate and controversy throughout the coronavirus pandemic, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the definition of "vaccine ...