gazetteer
(noun) a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas)
gazetteer
(noun) a journalist who writes for a gazette
Source: WordNet® 3.1
gazetteer (plural gazetteers)
journalist
publicist
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.
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.
gazetteer (third-person singular simple present gazetteers, present participle gazetteering, simple past and past participle gazetteered)
(transitive) To describe in a gazetteer.
Source: Wiktionary
Gaz`et*teer", n. Etym: [Cf. F. gazetier.]
1. A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority. Johnson.
2. A newspaper; a gazette. [Obs.] Burke.
3. A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc., of many places.
4. An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 June 2025
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