Comments about Macquarie Dictionary:

This dictionary is the best reference work for Australian reference, its relevant to our culture and full of information not found anywhere else, love it, use it every week

Comments about Macquarie Dictionary:

Having handled this hardback Fifth Edition in a bookstore, I am reluctantly opting for the Concise edition instead as gifts for my two adult sons. I agree with a previous reviewer that two volumes would have been better than one that is so big and heavy. I would recommend this full edition as long as the buyer is prepared to wrestle with the size.

Comments about Macquarie Dictionary:

Well, it's huge, and heavy, therefore tough to drag around in your briefcase! (I wonder how on earth the binding is secured, and hope it can survive time - will have to handle the book with some care!). Definitive however, and essential for serious writers and editors. There is good scientific content, for a general dictionary. I might have expected and appreciated some general essays on language etc, but I guess it was already too big to add anything further! Thank goodness anyway for the access to the online Macquarie that it also offers the buyer , a handy soft-copy option!

Comments about Macquarie Dictionary:

Perfect when you need to know what something is or how to spell that difficult word; or just to learn new words!

Comments about Macquarie Dictionary:

Great updated dictionary including software version. Only drawback to the hardcover edition is that it is large and heavy. Would have been better to have been split in two and issued as two pieces. Not nearly as easy to handle as the earlier editions.