The word “synonym” shows up in print about 18 times more often than the word “homonym,” according to Google’s Ngram Viewer. It’s nearly 13 times more popular than “antonym,” even though “antonym” ...

Two words are antonyms if their meanings are opposite. Like ‘slow’ and ‘fast’. Two words are synonyms if their meanings are the same or similar, like ‘pretty’ and ‘lovely’. Another example would be ...

Thesauruses exist mainly for English. Few other thesauruses are compiled for other languages. (Japanese is a notable exception.) Why is this? The richness of the English vocabulary and the wealth of ...

British comedian Michael McIntyre has a standard bit in his standup routines concerning the many (many!) slang terms posh British people use to describe being drunk. These include "wellied," ...

Published in 2009, the Historical Thesaurus to the Oxford English Dictionary contains 800,000 words organized by theme and date. The thesaurus covers words and synonyms from Old English to the present ...