GAZETTEER

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


Etymology 1

Noun

gazetteer (plural gazetteers)

journalist

publicist

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)

A geographic dictionary or encyclopedia, sometimes found as an index to an atlas.

A newspaper.

(obsolete) An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.

Verb

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



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