DEAR RICHARD: The word buck has nine different definitions as presented in dictionary.com. This set me to wondering “Is there a definition of words with many definitions? What words in the English ...

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 ...

People occasionally complain to me that so many today seem to lean on profanity rather than utilizing the other lexical resources at their disposal. “Why do they have to keep using that word over and ...

The Cambridge Dictionary has recently added more than 6,000 new words to its online edition. Among the most popular are "skibidi," "delulu," and "tradwife." Colin McIntosh, the dictionary's lexical ...

Polyphiloprogenitive is a rare English word that describes someone or something that produces many offspring or results. The ...