Dictionary.com Adds More Than 150 New Words and Definitions and More Than 1000 Revisions

From the Dictionary.com:

In our latest update to the dictionary, we added more than 150 new words and definitions, and revised over 1,000 entries. New additions such as feels, yaaas, and doge highlight the role of social media in transmitting and popularizing new terms, while fitness tracker, digital wallet, and Internet of Things demonstrate the new ways that technological innovation is changing the way we live and speak IRL (in real life). Additionally, new entries such as sapiosexual and the gender-neutral prefix Mx. reflect cultural conversations surrounding gender and sexuality.

Other New Words and Phrases Include:

• Creative Commons
• digital citizen
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• IRL
• kk

More New Words in the Complete Blog Post
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