The Macquarie Dictionary

Revised Third Edition.

The Macquarie is a comprehensive dictionary, containing international words which have come into Australian English as well as those words which identify our English as distinctively our own.

As the national dictionary it is unique, scholarly — a fundamental account of the words we use and what we mean by them.

FEATURES OF THIS REVISED THIRD EDITION
• over 110,000 headwords
• over 30,000 subsidiary headwords
• over 200,000 definitions
• over 21,000 encyclopaedic entries for people and places
• usage notes
• over 18,000 illustrative examples, many drawn from Australian texts
• comprehensive etymologies
• up-to-date coverage of new words
• Australian regionalisms
• a broad coverage of Aboriginal English
• key items from English in South-East Asia