Will you survive Q-day? Macquarie Dictionary Words to Watch August 2024
Do you know your fat bikes from your gym rats? Join our editorial team as they define the latest trending words in Australian English
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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…
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 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 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 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 Read More »
Macquarie Dictionary data sets available to license
Are you a business who wants to build an in-house spellchecker or a researcher interested in Australian English? Click here to learn more about licensing Read More »
What makes a ‘word’ for Word of the Year?
The English language has the great capacity to create new words and new meanings from existing words. One of the more common ways we form Read More »
Word of the Year 2022 around the world
As 2022 winds down, our fellow dictionaries from around the world are announcing their words of the year. Collins Dictionary had announced their Word of Read More »
Word of the Year 2022 | Shortlist
The Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year voting is open now. The below shortlist was chosen from the 15 categories under consideration for Word of Read More »
Announcing the Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year 2023
Announcing the Macquarie Dictionary Committee’s Choice and People’s Choice Word of the Year 2023. You can review the final shortlist here (and for those interested, the longlist here). Thank Read More »
A bit about the categories for the Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year
The Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year has a shortlist consisting of at least one word from each of our categories. Our editors have gone Read More »
The toe-biter
This week we are wearing shoes and socks because the word of the week is toe-biter, also known as the giant water bug. The toe-biter Read More »