gazette
Americannoun
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a newspaper (now used chiefly in the names of newspapers).
The Phoenix Gazette.
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Chiefly British. an official government journal containing lists of government appointments and promotions, bankruptcies, etc.
verb (used with object)
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gazettes,
present (3rd person singular)
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gazetted,
past participle, past
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gazetting
present participle
noun
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a newspaper or official journal
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( capital when part of the name of a newspaper )
the Thame Gazette
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gaz. an official document containing public notices, appointments, etc
verb
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Present
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gazettesimple
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gazettessimple
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have gazettedperfect
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has gazettedperfect
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am gazettingprogressive
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are gazettingprogressive
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is gazettingprogressive
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have been gazettingperfect progressive
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has been gazettingperfect progressive
Past
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gazettedsimple
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had gazettedperfect
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was gazettingprogressive
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were gazettingprogressive
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had been gazettingperfect progressive
Future
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.
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Publication of the ruling in the official gazette Monday effectively finalized the legal process, and the decision is not subject to appeal.
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
Once the law is published in the official gazette, judges will have two months in which to apply it.
From BBC ● May 30, 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
Secretary of State Timothy Pickering sent that letter out to all the newspapers and gazettes that had printed the fakes, and publishers updated the official collection of Washington’s papers.
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
But the amnesty has not been gazetted into law and some feel that makes it precarious.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2012
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
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
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
Now, with the D. S. O. a mere matter of gazetting, it was established beyond dispute.
From The Red Planet by William John Locke
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