New Words

New words, phrases and meanings constantly come into being. Every week, we publish a short article 'Word of the Week' about a new word or phrase – or a new sense of an old word – to show you what it means, how it's used and where it came from.

Word of the Week is hosted on the Macmillan English Dictionary resource site. Click here to go there.

There is also an archive of articles, and a chart of the most popular new words of 2003.

A longer article about new words is published every month in MED Magazine.