gazetteer
Synonym of gazette in an official gazette”)Synonym of gazette (“to announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette”).
Meaning
3 senses(transitive)Synonym of gazette (“to announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette”).
(transitive)To describe the geography of (a country or other place) in a gazetteer (etymology 2, noun sense 1).
(archaic, transitive)To report about (someone) in a gazette or newspaper.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
The noun is borrowed from French gazettier (archaic), gazetier (“journalist, newspaperman”The noun is borrowed from French gazettier (archaic), gazetier (“journalist, newspaperman”) + English -eer (suffix forming agent nouns denoting people associated with or engaged in a specified activities). Gazettier, gazetier are derived from gazette (“newspaper”) + -ier (suffix denoting a profession); and gazette from Italian gazzetta, from Venetan gazeta, from gazeta dele novità (literally “a gazeta of news”) (referring to the cost of the newspaper, a gazeta being a Venetian coin of little value, whence English gazet (obsolete)), possibly a diminutive of Latin gaza (“riches, treasure; treasury”), ultimately from Old Median *ganǰam (“treasure; wealth”). The English word is analysable as gazette + -eer.
The noun is derived from The Gazetteer’s, or Newsman’s Interpreter (1st edition, 1692), the name of a geographical index compiled by the English clergyman and historian Laurence Echard (c. 1670 – 1730); in the preface he said “The Title was given me by a very eminent Person, whom I forbear to name.” The preface also stated that the work was “partly design’d for all such as frequent Coffee-Houses, and other places for News”, that is, to help readers better understand the newspapers written by gazetteers or journalists (see etymology 1).
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Forms
gazetteers, gazetteering, gazetteered, gazetteered| Base form | gazetteer · to gazetteer |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | gazetteers |
| Present participle | gazetteering |
| Past simple | gazetteered |
| Past participle | gazetteered |
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Synonyms
1 synonymsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle