different between gazetteer vs gazette

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

gazette +? -eer, from French gazetier (“newspaperman”)

Noun

gazetteer (plural gazetteers)

1. journalist
2. publicist

Translations

Etymology 2

From The gazetteer's: or newsman's interpreter, a geographical index edited by Laurence Echard, 1st ed. published 1693. In 1704, in the second volume Echard referred to the work as Gazetteer.

Noun

gazetteer (plural gazetteers)

1. A geographic dictionary or encyclopedia, sometimes found as an index to an atlas.
2. A newspaper.
3. (obsolete) An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.

Translations

Verb

gazetteer (third-person singular simple present gazetteers, present participle gazetteering, simple past and past participle gazetteered)

1. (transitive) To describe in a gazetteer.
   • 2002, W. Francis, Gazetteer of South India (volumes 1-2)

     The success of the gigantic undertaking has been unparalleled: few countries, if any, are more thoroughly gazetteered than India.

References

• “gazetteer”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

English

Etymology

1605; borrowed from French gazette, from Italian gazzetta, from Venetian gazeta, from gazeta dele novità (literally “a gazeta (halfpenny) of news”), named for the cost (one gazeta) of the newspaper. Compare penny dreadful, dime novel. See gazzetta for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

gazette (plural gazettes)

1. A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; especially, the official journal published by the British government, containing legal and state notices.

Derived terms

• gazetteer
• have one's name in the Gazette

Translations

Descendants

• ? Kikuyu: ngath?ti
• ? Maori: k?hiti
• ? Swahili: gazeti

Verb

gazette (third-person singular simple present gazettes, present participle gazetting, simple past and past participle gazetted)

1. To publish in a gazette.
2. (Britain) To announce the status of in an official gazette. This pertained to both appointments and bankruptcies.

Derived terms

• degazette

Translations

See also

• dime novel
• penny dreadful

French

Etymology

From Italian gazzetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.z?t/

Noun

gazette f (plural gazettes)

1. gazette

Descendants

Further reading

• “gazette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

West Flemish

Etymology

Borrowed from French gazette.

Noun

gazette f

1. newspaper (printed sheet published periodically)