Breaking and bouldering our way to gold
With the Paris 2024 Olympic Games approaching quickly, news and social media has been flooded with stories about Olympic trials, new sports, and athletes…
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Getting started on the new Macquarie Dictionary Online
Welcome to the new Macquarie Dictionary Online. We have paired a gorgeous new design with improved functionality as part of our first major refresh in a decade. Read on to learn how to access your subscription and set up shared logins (for business subscription only).
A wongi about Australian Word Map
Australian Word Map is a small treasure on offer at the Macquarie Dictionary website. It was set up by the ABC and Macquarie Dictionary as an interactive site to collect and record words and expressions from all over Australia. Thousands of people contributed,
It’s here! The Macquarie Dictionary Ninth Edition
When we sent the Eighth Edition of the Macquarie off to the printer, on 20 March 2020, it was our third day of working from home…
Markus Zusak’s Foreword to the Macquarie Dictionary Ninth Edition
The new edition of the Macquarie Dictionary has been introduced by one of our very favourite authors. Markus Zusak is an internationally bestselling…
Introducing…the Macquarie Dictionary Ninth Edition
Almost exactly 42 years after its first edition, this September sees the publication of the ninth edition of the Macquarie Dictionary…
Words to ponder for the Macquarie Dictionary
We’ve had quite a lot of discussion about our last list of potential words. All our words we put up are under consideration, be they submitted by you, by your friends and colleagues or by other people all over Australia. We review them and see if they’re sufficiently part of the Australian lexicon to be added … Read more
New words to consider for the Macquarie Dictionary
If you haven’t submitted a new word you’ve heard to us at Macquarie Dictionary, now is your chance to do so. Not only could you have the kudos of suggesting a potential word, but it might even end up on one of these articles. We take these words from you and collate them to consider … Read more
Five new words for you to ponder
We always encourage new word submissions from you, and you can submit any word you hear, that’s not already in the Macquarie Dictionary here. We’ll review it for inclusion once we receive it. These are made up of words we are currently investigating, so not all may make it. Let us know what you think … Read more
Five fresh new words for February
Welcome to the inaugural new words blog of 2023! Have you heard of leet (or leetspeak)? It’s a form of communication used online, invented by the users of bulletin board systems 40 years ago, in which words are respelt by replacing certain letters with numbers or other symbols that resemble them. It’s hypothesised to have been … Read more