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Publication details:
Sydney : Macquarie Dictionary Publishers, 2023.
Edition:
9th edition
Record id:
200722
Subject:
English language -- Australia -- Dictionaries.
English language -- Dictionaries.
Australianisms -- Dictionaries.
Contents:
1. A-K
2. L-Z.
Summary:
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. - Publisher's website.
ISBN:
9781761267741
Phys. description:
2 volumes (xix, 1819 pages) ; 31 cm