Merriam-Webster Unabridged just got bigger. We’ve added more than 1,400 new terms and phrases, and more than 700 new senses of existing terms. We’ve also revised, updated, and enhanced hundreds of entries and added thousands of example sentences to provide contextual information.

The new entries and senses offer a kind of snapshot of how exactly our language expands. It doesn’t happen quickly—we monitored many of these words for years before they’d met our criteria for entry—and it’s pushed by various fields and endeavors. Fashion is one:

Technology is another:

Other terms come from finance:

Science offers new terms too:





Art, literature, and film also make their contributions:

Sometimes we see a category of terms expand, as abbreviations have in this era of character counts and coded communication shortcuts:

And sometimes the informal members of the lexicon clamor for recognition:

And that’s just a sampling of what’s been added. The terms vary from the technical to the casual, but they’re all established members of the language. And now they’re all part of Merriam-Webster Unabridged too.