we can be pretty sure he wasn’t talking about his Facebook page. Instead, Fuller used the word to mean something like “estranged” or “fallen out,” a straightforward literal meaning that ...

And I understand it to have the meaning it had at the time people ... “in favor of the actual words on the page.” Some beliefs — superficial or peripheral ones — may be “set aside ...

Words sometimes have two meanings, as Led Zeppelin sang in “Stairway to Heaven.” And indeed they often do. Especially, words can acquire new meanings and lose old ones. For example, ...

The maps cover much ... Every meaning appears in multiple locations, and every location contains a cluster of related meanings. Some areas selectively respond to words related to people, for ...

"Phony" The word "phony," meaning not genuine or real, comes from the British word "fawney," a brass ring that con artists would pretend to find and make an unsuspecting chump pay to keep.

In fact, very few interesting words are quite so stable. As they are used, their meanings drift. Furthermore, they need not remain true to their etymological roots, a belief known to linguists as ...