gazetteer
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
gazette + -eer, from French gazetier (“newspaperman”)
Noun[edit]
gazetteer (plural gazetteers)
Translations[edit]
journalist
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publicist
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Etymology 2[edit]
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[edit]
gazetteer (plural gazetteers)
- A geographic dictionary or encyclopedia, sometimes found as an index to an atlas.
- A newspaper.
- (obsolete) An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.
Translations[edit]
geographic dictionary or encyclopedia
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Verb[edit]
gazetteer (third-person singular simple present gazetteers, present participle gazetteering, simple past and past participle gazetteered)
- (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.
- 2002, W. Francis, Gazetteer of South India (volumes 1-2)
References[edit]
- “gazetteer”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.