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gazetteer

noun
/ˌɡæzəˈtɪə/UK/ˌɡæzəˈtɪəɹ/US

Etymology

The noun is borrowed from French gazettier (archaic), gazetier (“journalist, newspaperman”) + English -eer (suffix forming agent nouns denoting people associated with or engaged in a specified activities). Gazettier, gazetier are derived from gazette (“newspaper”) + -ier (suffix denoting a profession); and gazette from Italian gazzetta, from Venetan gazeta, from gazeta dele novità (literally “a gazeta of news”) (referring to the cost of the newspaper, a gazeta being a Venetian coin of little value, whence English gazet (obsolete)), possibly a diminutive of Latin gaza (“riches, treasure; treasury”), ultimately from Old Median *ganǰam (“treasure; wealth”). The English word is analysable as gazette + -eer. The verb is derived from the noun.

  1. derived from *ganǰam✻ — “treasure; wealth”
  2. derived from gaza — “riches, treasure; treasury”
  3. derived from gazeta
  4. derived from gazzetta
  5. borrowed from gazettier

Definitions

  1. A person who writes for a gazette or newspaper

    A person who writes for a gazette or newspaper; a journalist; (specifically) a journalist engaged by a government.

    • Mount novv to Gallo-belgicus: Appeare / As deepe as a States-man, as a Gazettier.
    • Did I tell you I have made Ford Gazetteer, with two hundred pounds a year salary, besides perquisites.
    • So—Satire is no more—I feel it die— / No Gazeteer more innocent than I!

  2. A gazette, a newspaper.

    • Confus'd above, / Glaſſes and bottles, pipes and gazetteers, / As if the table even itſelf vvas drunk, / Lie a vvet broken ſcene; […]

  3. Synonym of gazette (“to announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette”).

    • [A]s an old friend I've got one favour to beg and to request to be granted. […] Why, when you've been gazetteered as Sir Robert and Lady Smugglefuss, that I shall be the first to be honoured with a visit.
    • But the change was at hand, and two new major-generals and six brigadier-generals were gazetteered to the anxious country.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. To report about (someone) in a gazette or newspaper.

      • Patience, it will be our turn by and by, we shall have the honour of being Gazetteered in our place, at least I expect a whole paragraph in the 'Evening Post' for my own share.

    2. A dictionary or index of geographical locations.

      • This is the first volume of a gazetteer which is now being published. It may be looked upon as the very latest authority.

    3. A similar descriptive list (often alphabetical) of information on other subjects.

      • [A]ll the brighter stars of the sky are registered in their true relations one to another, on charts and photographic plates. […] When a higher precision is required, one must consult those gazetteers of the sky known as star catalogues.

    4. To describe the geography of (a country or other place) in a gazetteer (etymology 2, noun…

      To describe the geography of (a country or other place) in a gazetteer (etymology 2, noun etymology 2, noun sense 1).

      • Neither of them could make poetry coalesce with gazetteering or chronicle-making. It was like trying to put a declaration of love into the forms of a declaration in trover.
      • […] Wressley went back to the Foreign Office and his "Wajahs," a compiling, gazetteering, report-writing hack, who would have been dear at three hundred rupees a month.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA