gazette

American  

[guh-zet] / gəˈzɛt /

noun

1. a newspaper (now used chiefly in the names of newspapers).

   The Phoenix Gazette.

2. Chiefly British. an official government journal containing lists of government appointments and promotions, bankruptcies, etc.

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verb (used with object)

• gazettes,
  present (3rd person singular)
• gazetted,
  past participle,  past
• gazetting
  present participle

1. Chiefly British. to publish, announce, or list in an official government journal.

gazette British  

/ ɡəˈzɛt /

noun

1. 1. a newspaper or official journal

   2. ( capital when part of the name of a newspaper )

      the Thame Gazette

2.  gaz.  an official document containing public notices, appointments, etc

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verb

1. (tr) to announce or report (facts or an event) in a gazette

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• ungazetted
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Participles

• gazetting
  present
• gazetted
  past

Conjugated Forms

Present

• gazette
  simple
• gazettes
  simple
• have gazetted
  perfect
• has gazetted
  perfect
• am gazetting
  progressive
• are gazetting
  progressive
• is gazetting
  progressive
• have been gazetting
  perfect progressive
• has been gazetting
  perfect progressive

Past

• gazetted
  simple
• had gazetted
  perfect
• was gazetting
  progressive
• were gazetting
  progressive
• had been gazetting
  perfect progressive

Future

• will gazette
  simple
• will have gazetted
  perfect
• will be gazetting
  progressive
• will have been gazetting
  perfect progressive

Etymology

Origin of gazette

1595–1605; < French < Italian gazzetta < Venetian gazeta, originally a coin (the price of the paper), diminutive of gaza magpie

Explanation

A newspaper or journal can be called a gazette. In fact, many English-language newspapers from coast-to-coast include the name gazette in their title, from The Daily Hampshire Gazette in Massachusetts to the Mariposa Gazette in California. The noun gazette comes from the Italian word gazzetta. In the 1600s, there was a Venetian news sheet that became known as a gazeta because it cost a gazeta, a small-valued Venetian coin. Other experts suggest that the word comes from gazza, a kind of bird — specifically a chattering magpie — that would spread news. A related word is gazetteer, which is a dictionary of geographical names.

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

gazette gazettes gazetted gazetting

The decree published in the official gazette said Rajoelina's Malagasy nationality was revoked because he had acquired French nationality in 2014, local media reported, as photographs of the document were shared online.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025

The election will take place on 14 November, almost a year ahead of schedule, according to a notification in the official government gazette.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2024

The Turkish government finalized the step by publishing the measure in an official gazette.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

It will go into effect once it is published in the country’s official gazette, usually a swift formality.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2024

If Ryan found it, he’d scratch out the give-away names and scan it for use in an upcoming gazette.

From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher

“Sifts through scores of queer gazettes, posters, newspapers and oral histories that documented public spaces around the country, from the leather bars of San Francisco to the drag cabarets of Kansas City.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2024

But with a restraint that seems very foreign today, he appears not to have responded in any newspapers or gazettes, and to have let his reputation stand on its own.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2017

There are millions of pages of gazettes and daily journals and moral weeklies to fill.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2014

The articles, some of which appeared in official gazettes, were subject to privacy complaints by their subjects.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2011

She moved the stacks of musty gazettes and books to make more room.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

It comes as part of new amendments to a bylaw under the NSL that the government gazetted on Monday.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026

"Perera's name has been sent to the Elections Commission to be gazetted as the new member of parliament," Kariyawasam told Reuters.

From Reuters ● Jun. 10, 2022

Others managed to avoid eviction until 1991 when Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni with support from the World Bank, officially gazetted the land into a series of national parks.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2016

Dictator Stalin's veteran favorite, Lazar Kaganovich, big-nosed and brutally effective in driving Soviet bureaucrats to greater Five-Year Plan zeal was last week gazetted a Vice Premier.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hunter has had him gazetted to an Ensigncy in the 10th Foot, and he will, or I much mistake him, do honest credit to the recommendation.

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever

Now, with the D. S. O. a mere matter of gazetting, it was established beyond dispute.

From The Red Planet by William John Locke

The Duke of Wellington had to talk over the King about giving a lodge in Bushey Park to one of the FitzClarences for his life, and about gazetting the Queen's household.

From A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II by Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough

The gazetting of Mr. Meredith served only to increase this half-stifled anger, and on the very evening his appointment was announced in the “Pennsylvania Ledger,” the commissary recurred to his proposal.

From Janice Meredith by Paul Leicester Ford

According to all rule and precedent, every officer gazetted to the corps after that would hold rank—that is, local rank—according to the date of his gazetting into the corps.

From March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Related Words

• periodical