Description

– third edition of the best-selling Macquarie School Dictionary
– provides students with a fully updated, authoritative and user-friendly guide to language,
– includes both its traditional and contemporary usage.
– Entries have been selected from the Macquarie Dictionary database to meet the needs of students in the secondary school years.

This new edition features:
– more than 19 000 colour headwords and over 32 000 definitions
– more than 1000 new entries, including headwords such as vodcasting, webzine, helicopter parenting and chick lit
– fully integrated thesaurus entries for almost 5000 definitions
– screened panels with notes on grammar and language conventions
– a simple re-spelling pronunciation system
– appendixes on spelling as well as other useful language references

– the ultimate language resource for secondary students to use within a new Australian curriculum.