Macquarie dictionary
- Bib ID:
- 8414287
- Format:
- Book
- Edition:
- Eighth edition.
- Description:
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- Sydney, New South Wales : Macquarie Dictionary Publishers, 2020
- ©2020
- 2 volumes (xix, 1798 pages) ; 31 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781760556594 (hardback)
- Summary:
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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.
- Full contents:
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- [Volume 1] A-K
- [Volume 2] L-Z.
- Notes:
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- Chief editor: Alison Moore.
- Foreword by Kim Scott.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 1786-1789)
- NLApp89316
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
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- Macquarie dictionary : Australia's national dictionary
- Macquarie Australian dictionary
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2020
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