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CAMBRIDGE — The Rotary Club of Cambridge recently completed its third grade dictionary project. Started in the spring of 2004, Rotarians delivered dictionaries to all seven Dorchester County public ...

Some words take on meanings of their own, entirely separate from, yet strangely similar to, their intended definition over time. “Nitpicking” is a perfect example. We all know someone who nitpicks, ...

Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

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‘Parasocial’ has been selected as the Cambridge English Dictionary’s Word of the Year. The term describes a one-sided relationship in which individuals feel a sense of closeness and bond with ...

Cambridge Dictionary's word of 2025 refers to having a one-sided connection with someone you do not know. Trump withdraws US from 31 bodies in UN, already in fiscal peril 'Irregular' armed guards ...

Many fans have developed parasocial relationships with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, pictured here in January 2025 at the AFC Championship Game in Kansas City, Missouri. David Eulitt / Getty Images ...

If you felt more excited for Taylor Swift’s engagement announcement earlier this year than you did for your friend or family member’s, you might relate to Cambridge Dictionary’s word of 2025.

Cambridge Dictionary defines “Parasocial” as “involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character in a book, film, TV series, ...

Coined in 1956 by sociologists Donald Horton and Richard Wohl, the word was initially used to describe television viewers who formed one-sided relationships with TV personalities. In recent years, the ...

Cambridge Dictionary has named "parasocial" as its word of the year for 2025, a term that describes the connection someone feels with a celebrity they've never met. Psychologists have noted how these ...