The Australian Oxford Dictionary, sometimes abbreviated to AOD, is a dictionary of Australian English

Australian English

Australian English is the name given to the group of dialects spoken in Australia that form a major variety of the English language....

 published by Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...

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The AOD combines elements of the previous Oxford

Oxford

The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...

 publication the Australian National Dictionary, which was a comprehensive, history-based record of 10,000 words and phrases that make up Australia's contribution to English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

. However, the Australian National Dictionary was not a full dictionary, and could not be used as one in the normal sense. The AOD borrowed the work of the AND and the Oxford Dictionary, while also appearing as a rival to the Macquarie Dictionary

Macquarie Dictionary

The Macquarie Dictionary is a dictionary of Australian English. It also pays considerable attention to New Zealand English. Originally it was a publishing project of Jacaranda Press, a Brisbane educational publisher, for which an editorial committee was formed, largely from the Linguistics...

, when it was released in 1999.

Like the Macquaire, the AOD combines elements of a normal dictionary, and an encyclopaedic volume. It is a joint effort of Oxford University and the Australian National University.

The Australian Oxford Dictionary current editor is Dr Bruce Moore. Its content is largely sourced from the databases of Australian English at the Australian National Dictionary Centre and from the Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary , published by the Oxford University Press, is the self-styled premier dictionary of the English language. Two fully bound print editions of the OED have been published under its current name, in 1928 and 1989. The first edition was published in twelve volumes , and...

. It also draws on the latest research into International English

International English

International English is the concept of the English language as a global means of communication in numerous dialects, and also the movement towards an international standard for the language...

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The second edition contains more than 110,000 headword

Headword

A headword, head word, lemma, or sometimes catchword is the word under which a set of related dictionary or encyclopaedia entries appear. The headword is used to locate the entry, and dictates its alphabetical position...

s and more than 10,000 encyclopedic entries.