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Webster 1913 Edition
Gazetteer
Gazˊet-teer′
,Noun.
[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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Gazetteer
GAZETTEE'R
,Noun.
1.
The title of a newspaper.2.
A book containing a brief description of empires, kingdoms, cities, towns and rivers, in a country or in the whole world, alphabetically arranged; a book of topographical descriptions.Definition 2024
gazetteer
gazetteer
English
Noun
gazetteer (plural gazetteers)
Translations
publicist
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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.
Translations
geographic dictionary or encyclopedia
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Verb
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)