Speech blurs together unless you know the language; scientists found the brain signal that separates the words ...

Meaning doesn’t stay inside individual brains. Shared attention and language allow meaning to become symbolic, social, and cumulative.

How do words get their meanings? Why does the string of letters (and sounds) "d-o-g" mean "dog" and "c-a-t" mean "cat"? For the most part, meanings are conventions: A group of people (like speakers of ...

Many people use simple English words every day, but many of them use these words in the wrong way. This happens because these words look similar, sound similar, or feel similar when we speak. But the ...

Have you ever felt “disgustikafied,” been branded a “rampallion” or had a “frabjous” day? Or are you totally, utterly and “completriciously” confused by these questions? If so, it’s time to brush up ...

Meaning: Brio refers to liveliness, spirited energy, and vibrant enthusiasm — the kind of flair that makes performances, personalities or actions feel vivid and full of life. From Italian brio meaning ...

Dictionary.com has crowned a set of numbers as its 2025 word of the year. It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects "social trends and global events that defined that year" and ...

Sorry, parents and teachers of middle schoolers: your days of hearing "67" shouted randomly are far from over. Dictionary.com on Wednesday announced it has chosen "67 ...

In August of 1950, when I was just a little tyke and my sister Laura but a babe in arms, our family set out in our 1947 Kaiser from Princeton, New Jersey, for parts West. We were moving out to ...

Are "skibidi," "rizz" and "sigma" out? It's back-to-school season, and students are not just bringing home stomach bugs; they are also saying new words and phrases that may make no sense to anyone out ...