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

It insisted in the gazette that the extension "has a very limited impact" on existing energy policy and "does not alter the rest of the timetable", including the full nuclear phase-out by 2035.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

He would be released from Wadi al-Natrun prison, north-west of Cairo, once the pardon was published in the official gazette, he added.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2025

On Thursday, the parliament’s endorsement of Sweden’s membership and a presidential decree approving its accession protocol were published in Turkey’s official gazette, concluding the ratification process in the country.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 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

White families packed up and flocked to South Carolina for opportunities, from as far as New York according to the gazettes.

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

According to the Supreme Court order, a person must draft the will, sign it in the presence of two witnesses, and have it attested by a notary or gazetted officer.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025

"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

Italian King Vittorio Emanuele, who was the Senior Foreign Knight of the Garter and personally stands high in the regard of the British Royal Family, was gazetted out last week with utmost respect.

From Time Magazine Archive

However, a week after he was gazetted as retiring.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall

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

From The Red Planet by William John Locke

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 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

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

Related Words

• periodical