Dimensions
200 x 256 x 50mm
Australia's National Dictionary.
The 'Macquarie ABC Dictionary' is a comprehensive account of Australian English, drawing on the contributions made to Australian Word Map for its coverage of regionalisms within the national variety. Australian Word Map, is a joint project of Macquarie Dictionary and ABC Online.
Features:
- Over 50,000 headwords
- Over 8,500 subsidiary headwords
- Over 120,000 definitions
- Over 5,500 encyclopedic entries for people and places
- Extensive usage notes
- Notes backgrounding key items of the jargon of politics and economics in an Australian context
- Up-to-date coverage of new words
- Useful appendixes including a short account of the language of sms text
- An extensive coverage of Australian regionalisms
