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Macquarie
Dictionary

Macquarie
Dictionary
Online

The Macquarie Dictionary Online is the most up-to-date Australian dictionary available. The Macquarie Dictionary Online gives you access to the Macquarie Dictionary Fourth Edition (published in print in 2005).

Advantages of subscribing to the Macquarie Dictionary Online:

1. easy, comprehensive and interactive searching
2. annual updates — for 2008 words such as toxic debt, flashpacker, bromance, textaholic, guerilla gardener, ecocentrism, uberveillance, lawfare and many more
3. updated encyclopedic information
4. extra features including Drag & Drop, Add-a-World and Dictionary Wit

Contents

The dictionary features the following:

• over 112,000 headwords covering English as it is used in Australia.
• etymologies for some of the more interesting phrases in English. Where does `save someone's bacon' come from? And what about 'on the wallaby'?
• thousands of new words and senses. Words are constantly coming into use in Australian English, from many different sources.
• illustrative material from Ozcorp, Macquarie's database of Australian writing, which continues to be increased and updated.
• regionalisms from around Australia, many gathered from Australian Word Map, a joint online project of Macquarie and ABC Online, which has called on the help of Australians all over the country to identify regionalisms from their area.