The first major English - Irish dictionary in 60 years was launched on October 30, 2020 by President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins. The new dictionary, produced by Irish language body Foras na Gaeilge ...

A first-ever fully Irish dictionary has been launched in a ‘historic moment’ for the language. The launch means that anyone looking for the definition of an Irish word will now be able to do so ...

There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...

World Dictionary Day takes place on October 16, the birthday of the American lexicographer Noah Webster, whose enormous, two-volume An American Dictionary of the English Language—published in 1828, ...

A short-lived term unlikely to have use in the future: that was how the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary viewed "anti-Semite", recently uncovered archival documents show. Celebrated ...

Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806. His 1828 follow-up contained 70,000 entries. By 1864, the collection had 114,000 ...