gazetteer
Americannoun
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a geographical dictionary.
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Archaic. a journalist, especially one appointed and paid by the government.
noun
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gaz. a book or section of a book that lists and describes places
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archaic a writer for a gazette or newspaper; journalist
Etymology
Origin of gazetteer
Example Sentences
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“He was a really great guy,” Wolfgang Welch, general manager of nearby Vanity nightclub, told Gazetteer.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2025
In 2008, drinks historians Jared Brown and Anistatia Miller discovered a 1798 printing of the word in London's The Morning Post And Gazetteer.
From Salon • Jun. 24, 2021
The 1911 Hill’s Virginia Business Directory and Gazetteer lists only one hotel, which was owned by Henry Cooperthite and was next to his racetrack.
From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2018
Alvin Ailey is too, as are Bach, Basho, the Brontës, Hemingway, Faulkner, Kahlil Gibran, Michelangelo and 361 others, all cataloged in “The Gazetteer and Atlas of Astronomy.”
From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2015
Last week the Malvern Gazetteer had Tom Yew on its front page.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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