Author Matt Greene on his new dystopian novel 'The Definitions' about life after a virus wipes people's memories.

Who or what is a white supremacist, exactly? The raging debate has resembled nothing so much as a classical ontological discourse on categorization. Are white supremacists considered so because they ...

mikroman6/Moment/Getty Images (Johnson); amtitus/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images (thought bubble) It took roughly eight years for Samuel Johnson and his staff of six helpers to complete the ...

To a great extent, science is about arriving at definitions. What is a man? What is a number? Questions such as these require substantial inquiry. But where science is supposed to be precise and ...

FaithTime has released its Bible Glossary, a comprehensive reference resource designed to help users understand important biblical terms and concepts with clarity and precision. The glossary addresses ...

One of many interesting facts about words we learned in "The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary" by Simon Winchester (2003) is that the most complex word in the language ...

The Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced website that records new words and their meanings. It began life in 1999 as a parody of Dictionary.com but has since become an important resource on the Web.