The HEINEMANN AUSTRALIAN STUDENT DICTIONARY 7TH EDITION has the following key features: 300 new entries compiled by practising teachers from around Australia, new words spanning IT, physical geography, science, recreation, media, technology, food and popular culture, extended Language Note boxes featuring tips on writing, Tricky Words boxes that clarify meaning and use of similar or confusing words, expanded Word Origins boxes, thesaurus style inclusion of synonyms and antonyms, flagged homophones to assist students with usage, Word Images Links (WILs) that focus on visual literacy and challenge readers to connect words, images and ideas andaddition of the Auslan alphabet.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.”—The New York Times Book Review “A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.”—Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of People of the Book Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means “slave girl,” begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women’s and common folks’ experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. Set during the height of the women’s suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell this highly original story. The Dictionary of Lost Words is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world. WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARD

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This is an Australian dictionary for adults, with updated content, including new and revised headwords and phrases based on the latest research of the Australian National Dictionary Centre.

With a reputation for being the most accessible and complete student dictionary for more than 20 years, the Heinemann Australian Student Dictionary 6th Edition continues in this tradition of excellence. Several features have been included to ensure the 6th Edition offers more of what teachers and students have been looking for in a student dictionary. New features: a large selection of new words relating to the Key Syllabus Areas such as PD/Health, SOSE/HSIE, Arts, Science and Technology, the new words also reflect contemporary issues, such as computing, the Internet, government, current affairs and the environment, the improved design makes the features listed under each headword more accessible to students, simpler definitions and descriptive sentences, with more consistent pronunciation guides to support ESL students, Word Origins and Word Feature boxes that provide interesting word histories for unusual or ambiguous words.

The central north of New South Wales is the home of the Gamilaraay, Yuwaalaraay and Yuwaalayaay people, one of the largest Aboriginal language groups in the state. For many years their languages were in decline, but in recent years they have been revived by a growing number of people in the area. This book is a result of their efforts. It contains the most extensive list of Gamilaraay, Yuwaalaraay and Yuwaalayaay words yet published; detailed information about words, and example sentences to illustrate their uses; comprehensive word lists to locate words by their English equivalent; and a learner's guide to the grammar of the languages.

This dictionary is an essential tool in the Australian primary classroom. It regular use will encourage young readers to use, explore and enjoy the richness of English.