There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...

Learn how Python's dictionary data structure works as a powerful and versatile way to store and retrieve objects and data in your applications. Programming languages all come with a variety of data ...

Dictionaries reward you for paying attention, both to the things you consume and to your own curiosity. By Rachel del Valle I can’t remember how old I was when I first learned the words denotation ...

When the first Kindle e-reader was launched, it sold out in less than six hours due to the benefits it offered readers. For the avid reader, in comparison to smartphones, the Kindle is an absolute ...

BERGEN EVANS, professor of English at Northwestern University, is known to a wide television and radio audience as one of our liveliest lexicographers and literary controversialists. He takes up, in ...