Kennedy Mitchum, 22, said the dictionary definition needed to be expanded to include systemic racism. The dictionary’s editors agreed. By Christine Hauser Merriam-Webster is revising its entry on ...

Oxford University Press has changed the definition of the word "woman" in its dictionaries after an online petition called on them to remove "sexist" language. Oxford lexicographers examined ...

Dictionary.com is updating entries to default to "they," instead of "he" or "she," when a pronoun is used. Credit: Shutterstock / Tama2u The lexicographers and editors at Dictionary.com know a ...