Look up any word in the dictionary, and there will be an example of that word in a sentence. Author Jez Burrows's book Dictionary Stories expands those sentences into works of fiction.

A student in Britain has created a Dictionary of Lost Words. It's filled with words that failed to make it into the Oxford English Dictionary. For example: Freegan, a person who eats free food ...

The project: Assembling an Assyrian dictionary based on words recorded on clay or stone tablets unearthed from ruins in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey, written in a language that hadn't been uttered ...

When Jez Burrows reads example sentences in dictionaries, he feels inspired. He has started a blog where he posts short stories made up entirely of sentences from the New Oxford American Dictionary.

The three-year project is partly funded by grants from the Mellon and Wagner Foundations. The Oxford Dictionary of African American English is scheduled to be released in 2025. TOPICS: African ...

A new online resource called “The Ojibwe Peoples Dictionary” opens doors to the sounds and context of the indigenous language.

The Johnson City Rotary Club and the Elks Lodge handed out 170 free dictionaries to third graders as part of a nationwide campaign called “The Dictionary Project.” The project aims to promote ...

Since 2004, The Dictionary Project has provided more than 4,000 free dictionaries to students. Many of the students they visited on Thursday were flipping through a dictionary for the first time.