Crossword clues for gazetteer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 places.
An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.
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."
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.
WordNet
n. a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas)
Wikipedia
A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or directory used in conjunction with a map or atlas. They typically contain information concerning the geographical makeup, social statistics and physical features of a country, region, or continent. Content of a gazetteer can include a subject's location, dimensions of peaks and waterways, population, GDP and literacy rate. This information is generally divided into topics with entries listed in alphabetical order.
Ancient Greek gazetteers are known to have existed since the Hellenistic era. The first known Chinese gazetteer was released by the first century, and with the age of print media in China by the ninth century, the Chinese gentry became invested in producing gazetteers for their local areas as a source of information as well as local pride. The geographer Stephanus of Byzantium wrote a geographical dictionary (which currently has missing parts) in the sixth century which influenced later European compilers. Modern gazetteers can be found in reference sections of most libraries as well as on the internet.
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).