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A geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas)
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gazetteer
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Word definitions for gazetteer in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It is a geography and gazetteer of the angelic and demonic domains. ▪ The names on its files provide a gazetteer to the map of much of this Unknown Land. ▪ Yet does Ulverton work as a novel, rather than as an immensely partial ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas)
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 journalist 2 publicist Etymology 2 n. 1 A geographic dictionary or encyclopedia, sometimes found as an index to an atlas. 2 A newspaper. 3 (context obsolete English) An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gazetteer \Gaz`et*teer"\, n. [Cf. F. gazetier.] A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority. --Johnson. A newspaper; a gazette. [Obs.] --Burke. A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc., of many ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, âjournalist,â from gazette (n.) + -eer . Meaning âgeographical dictionaryâ is from 1704, from Laurence Eachard's 1693 geographical handbook for journalists, "The Gazetteer's, or Newsman's, Interpreter," second edition simply titled "The Gazetteer." ...
Usage examples of gazetteer.
One being made for the convenience of the President of the United States at public receptions was provided with forty-two buttons for the different States, and others for the principal cities of the Union, so that a caller, by proper manipulation, might, while shaking a handle, be addressed in regard to his home interests with an exactness of information as remarkable as that of the traveling statesmen who rise from the gazetteer to astonish the inhabitants of Wayback Crossing with the precise figures of their town valuation and birth rate, while the engine is taking in water.
A Glossary of Terms and Gazetteer of Places and Ship Names, along with a Chronology of Key Events, appears after the main text of the book.
The creature was about fifty feet tall, with wide lapels, long dangling participles, and a pronounced gazetteer.
The books on the shelf behind Dalgarno were about the great railways of the world, and there were also atlases, gazetteers, ordnance survey maps, and references to steel manufacturers, lumber mills, and the dozen major and minor industries connected with the building of railways.
The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, & what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves.
The back seat of my car would of course be filled with books: with the dozens of travel guides, highway atlases, and gazetteers of haunted houses, prehistoric sites, battlefields, and castles that I've been collecting all my life.
As Volo remembered it, Justin had always been a late sleeper-no doubt a habit borne out of many nights of routinely wining and dining authors, agents, and booksellers (a practice the gazetteer wholeheartedly endorsed).