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Our live lookups are a new way to watch your language!
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2005 Words of the Year Announced
We've sorted through thousands of user hits from Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary to find the ten words that have most consistently piqued your curiosity this past year. Click here to view the results, including the #1 Word of the Year!
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Call us maniacal
but we've teamed up with ManiaTV! — the world's first live Internet Television Network. The result is "Word Up!" an offbeat look at the latest language craze that runs live every weekday morning at 10:30 a.m. EST.
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Announcing a Grand OPENing
Have you spotted a new word or a new sense for an old word that hasn't made it into the dictionary yet? Well, here's your chance to add your discovery (and its definition) to Merriam-Webster's Open Dictionary—a live, day-by-day chronicle of neologisms based completely on contributions from our users!
Have your defining moment here.
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Care for an "amuse-bouche" of new words?
The latest version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, is fresh off the press and now online! Whet your appetite with a sampling from our 2005 menu of new words and senses including "amuse-bouche"!
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Free Learner's Word of the Day
Announcing Merriam-Webster's LearnersDictionary.com,
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