Product Description: The Australian Reference Dictionary is an up-to-date reference book that combines all the best features of current dictionaries and encyclopedias in a handy single-volume format. Containing over 75,000 word and phrase definitions and providing broad coverage of topics ranging from places and individuals to art, history, languages, literature, medicine, sports, science, and theology, the book includes a wealth of illustrations, maps, and useful appendices...read more

Product Description: This is a concise edition of the Australian National Dictionary (OUP 1989) which was hailed as a major asset for readers studying Australian literature that made all earlier dictionaries of Australian English obsolete. The volume contains nearly as many headwords as the original edition, yet provides fewer collations, and indicates the first recorded, and most recent, use of a word...read more