Macquarie Dictionary Australia's National Dictiona

The revised Third Edition of the Macquarie contains 110,000 headwords including new words of World English and regionalisms from around Australia.

Also included are Aboriginal English words with wide currency, key English words from South-East Asia, additional encyclopedic entries covering recent events and people, and specialist words such as computer terms, music terms, etc.

Features of this Revised Third Edition:
– over 110,000 headwords
– over 30,000 subsidiary headwords
– over 200,000 definitions
– over 21,000 encyclopedic 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