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Macquarie Dictionary Online

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Umfassendes einsprachiges Standardsprachwörterbuch für australisches Englisch mit rund 138.000 Stichwörtern und Wendungen unf rund 210.000 Bedeutungen. Es unterscheidet sich von britischen (z. B. The Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED Online)) oder amerikanischen (z. B. Merriam-Webster Unabridged Online) Wörterbüchern dadurch, dass es die Sprache konsequent aus der Perspektive der australischen Sprechergemeinschaft dokumentiert. Dies umfasst sowohl die allgemeine englische Sprache als auch spezifisch australische Begriffe (Australismen), Slang und Fachterminologie. Das Wörterbuch beinhaltet ferner Vertonungen von rund 25.000 Stichwörtern durch australische Sprecher sowie über 45.000 etymologische Angaben und regionale Verwendungshinweise. Enthalten ist auch der Macquarie Thesaurus Online mit über 200.000 Sysnonymen. Updates: jährlich.

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Macquarie Dictionary Publishers (Pan Macmillan Australia)

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Bestellnummer bei digento :: digento order number

105882

Verlagsinformation :: Publisher's information

The Macquarie Dictionary was first published in print in 1981 and has been online since 2003. Its reputation has gone from strength to strength and it is now nationally and internationally regarded as the standard reference on Australian English.

Macquarie Dictionary Online is the most comprehensive Australian Dictionary and Thesaurus available. Our online service offers fast and easy access to over 160,000 Australian words and definitions along with encyclopedic entries, etymologies, usage notes and more, while the Macquarie Thesaurus Online contains over 200,000 synonyms.

An invaluable language resource for professionals

The Macquarie Dictionary Online is an invaluable living record of Australian English. Whether you are a small team of editors or a law library we’ve got you covered with:

• An easy to use, comprehensive search. Unsure how to spell a word? No worries, our built-in fuzzy search can help track it down.
• With over 25,000 Australian vernacular audio pronunciations, we won’t just help you spell a word but pronounce it correctly too.
• Get expert guidance at your fingertips with 45,000 etymologies, 23,000 encyclopedic notes and extensive usage notes to help you understand the history and context of words.
• Find words and phrases from regional Australia with the Word Map
• Grammar and punctuation guides cover you for everyday editorial queries.

Easy access as well as additional account features, including:

• IP access
• Our easy to set up shared URL feature provides your staff with no-login access
• Manage renewals, invoicing, contact details and usage statistics through My Account

Features

The Macquarie Dictionary & Thesaurus Online features the following:

• the complete record of English as it is used in Australia, from the colourfully colloquial to the highly technical
• thousands of new words and senses, such as adaptive clothing, cancel culture, coercive control, finsta, inclusion rider, Karen, ngangkari, pyrocumulonimbus, single-use, range anxiety, spicy cough, they, toxic positivity, truth-telling. Words are constantly coming into use in Australian English, from many different sources
• words relating to business, science and technology such as algorithmic bias, bossware, change agent, deepfake, doomscrolling, rightsize, Scully effect
• words and phrases from regional Australia, many gathered from Australian Word Map, a joint online project of Macquarie and ABC Online, such as black snow, hydro pole, maisonette, marron, musset hut, nointer, schnitter
• encyclopedic entries such as Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, Belt and Road Initiative, Black Lives Matter, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Guterres, Kati Thanda
• easy, comprehensive and interactive searching of over 138,000 headwords and phrases and over 210,000 definitions, with the ability to search either the dictionary, thesaurus or both
• annual updates of words, definitions and encyclopedic entries
• illustrative material from Ozcorp, Macquarie’s database of Australian writing, which continues to be increased and updated
• etymologies for words as well as for some of the more interesting phrases in English. Where does ‘save someone’s bacon’ come from? And what about ‘on the wallaby’?
• extensive usage notes, audio pronunciations and extra features including grammar and punctuation guides, crossword resources, Word of the Day and Aussie Word of the Week