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Booyah — Dictionary.com Is 30! A Trip Back to 1995

Why Do We Call Them Berries?

Food & Drink

Last Month In Pop Language: “I Like It” And Other...

Current Events

Remember These Fashion Fads (Or Were They Faux Pas)?

Hobbies & Passions

Soccer Terms For When The World Cup Is The Only...

Current Events

The Wittiest Vegan Names For Animal-alternatives

Food & Drink

Last Month in Pop Language: “This Is America” And Other...

Pop Culture

Everyday Words With Completely Different Meanings In Rap

Pop Culture

Our Favorite Viral Optical Illusions Explained

Hobbies & Passions

If Aliens Watched Our Media, They’d Describe Us With These...

Fun

In Omnia Paratus And Other Latin Phrases You’ve Heard While...

Pop Culture

Dictionary.com’s Top 10 Memes To Know How To Use

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TV Shows And Songs That Improved Our Vocabulary

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Words We Know Because Of Star Trek

Whether or not you're a Trekkie, you are bound to know (and even use) some of these phrases made popular by the beloved sci-fi franchise, Star Trek.

Beam over to these words!

Why Do Americans Call Football “Soccer”?

Why does the most popular sport in the world have two names? Learn about where the names "football" and soccer" come from, and who uses them now.

Find out which term came first.

Have You Ever Heard Of These Strange Studies?

From Escapology to Scatology, we’re touring the campus of out-of-the-ordinary fields of study in which some people specialize. Did your campus have these majors?

Discover your next major.