Australian Integrated School Dictionary & Thesauru

Edited at the Australian National Dictionary Centre in Canberra, this innovative reference book is a dictionary and thesaurus in a single volume. Completely revised and updated, with hundreds of new entries, this single volume includes:

over 15 000 headwords
a simple respelling system to guide pronunciation clear definitions with Australian usage
interesting and useful derivations that shed light on meaning and help with recognition of word elements
example phrases or sentences that identify the different meanings of the headword and show how it is used in context
the top section of each page contains the dictionary text, while the lower section contains corresponding thesaurus entries for two-thirds of the words covered by the dictionary
new words and terms include ‘anime’, ‘webcam’, ‘counterterrorism’, ‘ringtone’, ‘cyberspace’, ‘techno’, ‘carbon offset’, ‘chocker’, ‘HDTV’, ‘google’ and ‘text’.