The Australian Middle Primary Oxford Dictionary is the most comprehensive and up-to-date middle primary dictionary, covering all the latest words students need to know. Written specifically for Australian school children aged 8-10 years and featuring over 25,000 headwords, the Australian Middle Primary Oxford Dictionary serves as a working tool in the classroom that accustoms students to the style in which most adult dictionaries are written. At the same time, this dictionary is easy for students to use because it avoids abbreviations and similar conventions. Like other dictionaries published by Oxford University Press, the Australian Middle Primary Oxford Dictionary draws on the continually updated databases of the Australian National Dictionary Centre and Oxford Dictionaries. The Australian Middle Primary Oxford Dictionary includes the following information about words:their meanings (definitions)their part/s of speech (how they are used in sentences)how they are pronouncedhow they are usedtheir spellingassociated words (word building)their originsadditional information.A grammar, punctuation, and spelling guide is also provided as an insert.

Australian Primary Oxford Dictionary is an essential reference for Australian Upper Primary students with appendix words that identify core words in key learning areas.

The Australian Middle Primary Oxford Dictionary & Thesaurus (2e) is the most up-to-date, fully integrated primary dictionary and thesaurus available in Australia. It draws on the very latest Australian research into the words most commonly used by Australian children in Years 3 and 4, and combines a dictionary and thesaurus using an innovative 'one-stop' entry format. Key features:Age level: 8-10Over 11 000 dictionary head words and thesaurus entriesAlphabet edge indexes for clear signposting and easy navigationSimple respelling system to aid pronunciationWord origins are explained, while synonyms and antonyms are included within dictionary entriesWord building boxes are included to develop students' morphology skillsExample sentences to show words used in context.

Australia's most comprehensive Middle Primary dictionary, covering all the latest words students need to know, and featuring a special study section.

Compiled with the needs to students aged between 10 and 16 in mind, this new edition of the Australian Student's Oxford Dictionary contains comprehensive dictionary content (50 000+ headwords), as well as a grammar and reference guide, encyclopedic content and additional appendices.

The Oxford Very First Dictionary, with its colourful clear layout and familiar first words, each with a simple definition and illustration, is a fun and easy way for young children to learn how to use a dictionary. An illustrated section at the end on topics such as colours and days of the week provides additional support for early literacy.

This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. The author, uniquely among historians of the OED, is also a practising lexicographer with nearly thirty years' experience of working on the Dictionary. He has drawn on a wide range of sources-including previously unexamined archival material and eyewitness testimony-to create a detailed history of the project. The book explores the cultural background from which the idea of a comprehensive historical dictionary of English emerged, the lengthy struggles to bring this concept to fruition, and the development of the book from the appearance of the first printed fascicle in 1884 to the launching of the Dictionary as an online database in 2000 and beyond. It also examines the evolution of the lexicographers' working methods, and provides much information about the people-many of them remarkable individuals-who have contributed to the project over the last century and a half.