Macquarie Dictionary

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Product Description

The Macquarie Dictionary is nationally and internationally regarded as the standard reference on Australian English. An up-to-date account of our variety of English, it not only includes words and senses peculiar to Australian English, but also those common to the whole English-speaking world.

The Ninth Edition features:

• a comprehensive record of English as it is used in Australia today
• inclusion of the latest new words, such as bossware, coercive control, infodemic, long COVID, neopronoun, Omicron, prebunking, pyrocumulonimbus, range anxiety, Teal, truth-telling
• updated entries to reflect changing perspectives relating to the environment, society, politics, technology and the internet
• illustrative phrases showing how a word is used in context
• vocabulary and usages from regional Australia
• etymologies of words and phrases
• extensive usage notes
• foreword by Markus Zusak, international bestselling author
• free 12-month subscription to Macquarie Dictionary and Thesaurus Online

About the Author

The Macquarie Dictionary was first published in print in 1981 and has been online since 2003. It contains the complete record of English as it is used in Australia, and is nationally and internationally regarded as the standard reference on Australian English.

The Macquarie Dictionary - Australia's national dictionary.

Product Details

• ISBN: 9781761267741
• Format: Hardcover
• Title: Macquarie Dictionary

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