Macquarie ABC 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, a joint project of Macquarie Dictionary and ABC Online, is to be found at www.abc.net.au/wordmap.

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
– an extensive coverage of Australian regionalisms