gazetteer

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

gazette +‎ -eer, from French gazetier (“newspaperman”)

Noun

gazetteer (plural gazetteers)

1. journalist
2. publicist

Translations

journalist

• Bulgarian: журналист (bg) m (žurnalist)

publicist

• Dutch: publiciteitsagent

Etymology 2

From The gazetteer's: or newsman's interpreter, a geographical index edited by Laurence Echard, 1st ed. published 1693. In 1704, in the second volume Echard referred to the work as Gazetteer.

Noun

gazetteer (plural gazetteers)

1. A geographic dictionary or encyclopedia, sometimes found as an index to an atlas.
2. A newspaper.
3. (obsolete) An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.

Translations

geographic dictionary or encyclopedia

• Arabic: قَامُوس جُغْرَافِيّ‎ m (qāmūs juḡrāfiyy)
• Bulgarian: географски справочник m (geografski spravočnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地名辞典 (dìmíng cídiǎn)

• French: gazetier (fr) m, index géographique m

• German: Ortslexikon n
• Hungarian: helységnévtár
• Japanese: 地名辞典 (ちめいじてん, chimei jiten)
• Persian: فرهنگ جغرافیایی‎ (farhang-e joğrâfiyâyi), جاینامه‎ (fa) (jâynâme)
• Russian: географи́ческий спра́вочник m (geografíčeskij správočnik), географи́ческий лексико́н m (geografíčeskij leksikón)

Verb

gazetteer (third-person singular simple present gazetteers, present participle gazetteering, simple past and past participle gazetteered)

1. (transitive) To describe in a gazetteer.
   • 2002, W. Francis, Gazetteer of South India (volumes 1-2)

     The success of the gigantic undertaking has been unparalleled: few countries, if any, are more thoroughly gazetteered than India.