Gazetteer
[,ɡæzə'tɪr]
Definition
(noun.) a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas).
(noun.) a journalist who writes for a gazette.
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Definition
(n.) A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority.
(n.) A newspaper; a gazette.
(n.) A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc., of many places.
(n.) An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.
Typist: Sophie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Geographical dictionary.
Checker: Walter
Examples
- GAZETTEER, I am an honest tradesman, who never meant harm to anybody. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I walked to and fro, tried to read an old gazetteer, listened to the awful noises: looked at faces, scenes, and figures in the fire. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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