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It’s a typo, Isaac.
09.06.2023 22:03 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Today's Word of the Day is hadal.
Learn more about this word: https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-day/hadal-2023-06-08/
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.
08.06.2023 00:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Learning 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.
08.06.2023 00:49 — 👍 86 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 0
Today's Word of the Day is écossaise.
Learn more about this word:
"Babe, are you paying attention? You're not looking up words in the dictionary while we're talking, are you?"
05.06.2023 21:14 — 👍 231 🔁 33 💬 4 📌 5
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:
Happy Pride Month! Today's Word of the Day is prismatic. 🌈
Learn more about this word: https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-day/prismatic-2023-06-01/
31.05.2023 02:01 — 👍 45 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Today's tasty Word of the Day is tzatziki.
Grab a spoon (or a cracker), and learn more about this word: https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-day/tzatziki-2023-05-31/
7.8 billion people in the world. ONE of them has to be named “Dictionary,” right?
31.05.2023 01:59 — 👍 28 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Today's Word of the Day is gazetteer. Yep, there are different types of dictionaries!
Learn more about this word:
Happy Memorial Day, Bluesky! Today's Word of the Day is anamnesis.
Learn more: https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-day/anamnesis-2023-05-29/
The word "shiv" is a noun, meaning "an improvised or homemade weapon for cutting or stabbing."
29.05.2023 02:39 — 👍 39 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 2What new vocabulary words have you learned from Succession? We’ll go first:
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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.
25.05.2023 23:12 — 👍 37 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
There's no reason to be scared of today's Word of the Day. It's just a word.
Learn more here:
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:
Yes, HBO Max is dropping "HBO" from their name, and no, we are not dropping "tionary.com" from our name.
23.05.2023 22:56 — 👍 181 🔁 31 💬 11 📌 5
Today's Word of the Day is chelonian. It means "turtle stuff," more or less.
Learn more about this word:
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.
22.05.2023 19:41 — 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 1
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:
https://www.dictionary.com/e/apps/
17.05.2023 19:14 — 👍 43 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 0Happy birthday... to us! And Mark Zuckerberg. But mostly us!
Dictionary.com was launched 28 years ago today: May 14th, 1995.
Biweekly is “occurring every two weeks” AND “occurring twice a week.” Both definitions are correct!
14.05.2023 15:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there! Today's Word of the Day is cosher.
14.05.2023 15:17 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
Flammable: an adjective meaning "capable of being set on fire."
Inflammable: an adjective meaning "capable of being set on fire."
