Dictionary Day on October 16 celebrates the birth of Noah Webster, an American writer who was born in 1758. Webster is best-known for publishing the first dictionary in 1806, which he continued to ...

Noah Webster was the patriot armed with a pen. He defined 12,000 new words in the wake of the American Revolution, using ...

Dictionary Day is celebrated in the United States on October 16th in honor of Noah Webster’s birthday. Noah Webster was born ...

The full moon falls in the midpoint of the lunar cycle when the Earth is positioned directly between the sun and the moon.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Tuesday, October 15, ruled that a district court applied the wrong test ...

The American dictionary Merriam-Webster is to change its definition of the word racism after receiving an email from a young black woman. Kennedy Mitchum, a recent graduate of Drake University in ...

The recent additions come after the dictionary included cheffy, chef’s kiss, jollof rice, smashburger and stagiaire ...

Former President Donald Trump touted the controversial power of tariffs before a receptive Economic Club of Chicago audience downtown Tuesday. The event, hosted by Bloomberg News and the ECC, focused ...

The peculiar American coot is a somewhat common permanent resident in Oklahoma, and is this week’s featured creature.

The New England native’s impact on our national heritage proved far greater than just the American-English dictionary that still bears his name. "Webster was very much in the truest sense of the ...

In addition to street corn (noun, grilled corn on the cob that is coated with a creamy spread), additional nouns include ...