Obsolete (adj.): no longer in use or no longer useful ...

The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary, by Sarah Ogilvie (Knopf, 370 pp., $30) Recently, I had a friend to lunch in New York and when I showed him my study, ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. It’s spring, and a young lexicographer’s fancy turns to … love of new words. Many dictionaries update ...

Paul Hemetsberger started his online dictionary dict.cc in 2002 and has grown it to one of the best known web services in the German speaking world. Eleven servers handle between 5 and 6 million page ...

Mr. Tersigni is a cultural critic. Have you ever obeyed the suggestions of a digital writing assistant to replace a word or restructure a sentence without knowing how, why or even if it made your ...

1. When you open a dictionary to any two-page spread, you are usually looking up a word. It is usually the case, though, that your eye wanders. Words are tantalizing, and a dictionary page holds so ...

Are you looking for books that are inspired by the dictionary? Then, worry not, we've got you covered. Here is a compilation ...

Learn how Python's dictionary data structure works as a powerful and versatile way to store and retrieve objects and data in your applications. Programming languages all come with a variety of data ...

Even the dictionary can be sexist and out of date, especially when it comes to how a “woman” is described. Earlier this year, Oxford University Press changed its entry for “woman” in its dictionaries, ...