The Macquarie Dictionary Eighth Edition 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 Eighth Edition features: - a comprehensive record of English as it is used in Australia today - more than 3500 new entries such as algorithmic bias, cancel culture, deepfake, eco-anxiety, hygge, influencer, Me Too, ngangkari, single-use, social distancing - thousands of updated entries to reflect changing perspectives relating to the environment, politics, technology and the internet - illustrative phrases showing how a word is used in context - words and phrases from regional Australia - etymologies of words and phrases - extensive usage notes - foreword by Kim Scott, multi-award-winning novelist.

'The Editorial Committee of the dictionary of Australian English, led by Arthur Delbridge, were adamant that their dictionary was to be descriptive. It was an important point of difference from traditional dictionary policy. This dictionary would give an account of Australian English as it was heard and written. We wanted it all: spoken, written, technical, polite, rude. The speech of labourers, the jargon of merchants, swearwords, Australianisms, as well as the basic core of English vocabulary.' The idea for a dictionary of Australian English was conceived in the 1960s, but it wasn't until 1981 that the first edition of the Macquarie Dictionary was published. More Than Words tells the story of how the dictionary was brought to life during this period -- from identifying the need for a genuinely Australian dictionary to the long road towards publication -- and explores how the dictionary has evolved over the years since then.

This new edition of the Macquarie Compact Dictionary provides an up-to-date and essential reference for the most common words and phrases used in Australian English. The Macquarie Compact Dictionary includes: · more than 53,000 words and phrases · more than 85,000 definitions · up-to-date entries such as agender, bariatrics, dox, freecycle, listicle, normcore, vamping · idiomatic phrases · etymologies · illustrative phrases showing how a word is used in context · pronunciations in the International Phonetic Alphabet

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This is a compact, authoritative dictionary designed especially for Australian users. Like other one-volume dictionaries it presents a selection, from the vast store of international usage, of those words which are current and relevant in the Australian context. But it does this with anauthority which no other Australian dictionary can claim. This authority has two bases, the international and the Australian. The dictionary's international authority is announced in the use of the name Oxford; its Australian authority comes from its having been fully edited at the Australian National Dictionary Centre in Canberra. Through Oxford(Australia's largest reference publishers) its editors had access to the most comprehensive database of the English language as it is used world-wide - the same database as that which forms the twenty-volume Oxford English Dictionary - and to the most recent distillation of this in the latestedition of the pace-setting Concise Oxford Dictionary. Through the Centre the dictionary's editors had access to the largest citation database of Australian English: that which forms the Australian National Dictionary. The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary is the first product of this lineage andits publication heralds a new era in Australian lexicography. Special features include: * Completely revised Australian pronunciations, represented in IPA notation; * up-to-date Australian spellings and their alternatives; * full coverage of historical areas of Australian English - convict terms, the language of the gold rushes, exploration, settlement etc.;* up-to-date coverage of scientific and technological terminology, especially of computer terminology; * full and reliable definitions and etymologies for words of Aboriginal origin, Aboriginal English words, etc.

Over 3000 new Australian words collected since the publication of the TMacquarie Dictionary' in 1981, with examples and details of origins. The biggest growth areas have been in the fields of economics, computers, medicine and music.