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PREORDER: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 12th Edition, Merriam-Webster | OUT Nov 18, 2025

PREORDER: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 12th Edition, Merriam-Webster | OUT Nov 18, 2025

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For the first time in over twenty years, and only the twelfth time since 1898, Merriam-Webster has published a new edition of its iconic Collegiate Dictionary.

Complete with thumb notches and a deep red cover, weighing almost five pounds, the Twelfth Edition will be released on November 18, 2025. It's available now for pre-order.
Thoroughly updated and redesigned for students, professionals, and word lovers, the Twelfth Edition features over 5,000 new words (including cold brew, farm-to-table, rizz, and dad bod), 1,000 new phrases and idioms, enhanced entries for the top lookups, and more than 20,000 additional usage examples.

The new Collegiate also introduces curated word lists (e.g., "Words From the 1990s" and "Words for Things That Often Go Unnamed"), expanded usage guidance, and fascinating word histories (e.g., calculate comes from the Latin for "pebble," because Romans used little stones for addition and subtraction). And readers will still find the classic line drawings—from a friendly looking aardvark to a prickly zoea ("a free swimming planktonic larval form of many decapod crustaceans").

For generations, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has been an essential reference source, consulted, gifted, and cherished by millions of readers. That legacy continues with the Twelfth Edition.

 

THE TWELFTH EDITION
America’s Most Trusted Dictionary, Now More Comprehensive Than Ever

* Over 5,000 new words
* Fascinating word lists and histories, expert usage guidance, and more
* Expanded entries for the top 500 most frequently looked-up words
* More than 20,000 additional usage examples, including 10,000 new quotations
* More readable and visually appealing than ever before
* New words include: cold brew, farm-to-table, parklet, heat dome, rizz, gaslighting, telework, doggo
* The official dictionary of the Associated Press Stylebook

For generations, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary has been an essential reference source. This new edition has been thoroughly updated and redesigned to be even more useful and engaging for students, professionals, and everyone who loves words.

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