Cambridge Dictionaries Online was set up in 1999 as a free resource, for learners of English as a foreign language, but has quickly become widely used by both native and non-native English speakers and learners (and it's still free).
New words entering the language, with examples of where they have been used and their meanings, are posted on the CDO blog, 'About Words'. Recent examples include:
- 'global weirding' – noun – informal extreme and unpredictable weather phenomena, giving credence to the theory of global warming
- 'twisticuffs' – plural noun – humorous argument conducted on Twitter
- 'zombie debtor' – noun – a person with a debt that they do not have a hope of paying off because the interest on it is so high
Reproduced courtesy of Cambridge University Press.
For further information, please contact Vicky Westmore at press@cambridge.org
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