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The official feed for Dictionary.com, the world's leading digital dictionary. Home to Word of the Day. Good at words, bad at Bluesky.
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We’re new to this app and didn’t realize it already supported alt text. Cut us some slack. We’ll do better going forward.
Learning new vocabulary should be tax-deductible. You learned 100 new words last year? Here’s a $100 tax credit. You learned 500 new words last year? Here’s a $500 tax credit. And so forth.
"Babe, are you paying attention? You're not looking up words in the dictionary while we're talking, are you?"
Today's Word of the Day, animalcule, isn't bite-sized. But you might say it's mite-sized. 🔬

We partnered with our friends at the Boston Museum of Science to bring you this Science Word of the Week:
animalcule | Science Word of the Week | June 2, 2023
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7.8 billion people in the world. ONE of them has to be named “Dictionary,” right?
Today's Word of the Day is gazetteer. Yep, there are different types of dictionaries!

Learn more about this word:
gazetteer | Word of the Day | May 30, 2023
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What new vocabulary words have you learned from Succession? We’ll go first:

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and of course
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Today's Word of the Day, and Science Word of the Week, is courtesy of our friends at the Boston Museum of Science. It's xerophyte.

The Boston Museum of Science is not on Bluesky yet, because we have 0 invite codes.
xerophyte | Science Word of the Week | May 26, 2023
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There's no reason to be scared of today's Word of the Day. It's just a word.

Learn more here:
skrik | Word of the Day | May 25, 2023
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Best is an adjective, meaning "of the highest quality, excellence, or standing."

Here it is in a sentence: "Tina Turner was simply the best."
Happy Hump Day, fellow logophiles! Today's Word of the Day is première danseuse.

Learn more about this word:
première danseuse | Word of the Day | May 24, 2023
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Yes, HBO Max is dropping "HBO" from their name, and no, we are not dropping "tionary.com" from our name.
Today's Word of the Day is chelonian. It means "turtle stuff," more or less.

Learn more about this word:
chelonian | Word of the Day | May 23, 2023
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If we had shared a Word of the Day every single day since Dictionary.com launched on May 14th, 1995, today would have been our 10,245th Word of the Day.

But we haven’t, so it’s not.
Trying to remember to manually post the new Word of the Day is a whole thing.
Happy Monday, Bluesky! We took a few days off, but we're back with a new Word of the Day!

Today's Word of the Day is jarabe tapatío. Learn more:
jarabe tapatío | Word of the Day | May 22, 2023
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