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gazetteer

UK /ˌɡæzəˈtɪə/US /ˌɡæzəˈtɪəɹ/

noun 4
verb 3
forms 3

noun4

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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. — 1890
•
A similar descriptive list (often alphabetical) of information on other subjects.
- Unlike other prehistoric processes, there is no comprehensive gazetteer of radiocarbon dates for the entire Bell Beaker phenomenon apart from a few high-quality regional datasets[…]. — 2024
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(no longer used, historical) 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. — 1611
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(no longer used) 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; […] — 1749

verb3

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To describe the geography of (a country or other place) in a gazetteer.
- 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. — 1876
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Synonym of gazette (“to announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette”).
- But the change was at hand, and two new major-generals and six brigadier-generals were gazetteered to the anxious country. — 1894
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(no longer used) 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. — 1841

forms

gazetteered · gazetteering · gazetteers

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