IPhone users now have access to the New Oxford American Dictionary right in the palm of their hands. Handmark, a developer and distributor of mobile media, announced an application for iPhone and iPod ...

simply click and highlight the word and you will be taken to Kindle’s pre-installed version of “The New Oxford American Dictionary." If you need a different dictionary, or a foreign language ...

When they got to a segment called "What’s Your Word?" in which listeners pitched words they thought should be in the ...

Pornography, as defined by the New Oxford American dictionary, is "intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic or emotional... Anne Rice, writing as A.N. Roquelaur, read by multiple narrators.

Yes, new words are constantly being added ... tech and fun facts all week long. The Oxford Dictionary of African American ...

The feature also includes a link for the “Full Definition” of the word. Clicking on this will take you to the new Oxford American Dictionary that is automatically downloaded with this 2.2 version of ...

The New Oxford American Dictionary defines “political correctness” as “the avoidance, often taken to extremes, of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize ...

A circus performer, an unsociable student or someone who is ahead of the curve? Over the decades, a “geek” has been all three ...

Actor Sir Sean Connery and English singer Dame Vera Lynn are among the new entrants in the Oxford Dictionary Of National Biography’s latest update. The biographies of 276 people, who left ...

Maybe it’s time to rethink the way we think about muses.

and lexicographer and Wordnik founder Erin McKean (who at the time was an editor at the New Oxford American Dictionary and Verbatim), I called in with two food-related words that I thought would ...