gazetteer

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

• Audio (Southern England)

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

gazetteer (plural gazetteers)

1. journalist
2. publicist

Translations

journalist

• Bulgarian: журналист (bg) m (žurnalist)
• Georgian: ჟურნალისტი (žurnalisṭi)

publicist

• Dutch: publiciteitsagent
• Georgian: ჟურნალისტი (žurnalisṭi)

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 index.
2. A newspaper.
3. (obsolete) An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.

Translations

geographic dictionary or encyclopedia

• Arabic: قَامُوس جُغْرَافِيّ m (qāmūs juḡrāfiyy)
• Bulgarian: географски справочник m (geografski spravočnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地名辞典 (dìmíng cídiǎn)

• French: gazetier (fr) m, index géographique m
• Georgian: გეოგრაფიული ცნობარი (geograpiuli cnobari), გეოგრაფიული ლექსიკონი (geograpiuli leksiḳoni)
• German: Ortslexikon n
• Greek:

  Ancient: περιήγησις f (periḗgēsis)

• Hindi: गैजेटियर (hi) m (gaijeṭiyar), गैजेट (hi) m (gaijeṭ), गजेटियर (hi) m (gajeṭiyar)
• Hungarian: helységnévtár (hu)
• Japanese: 地名辞典 (ちめいじてん, chimei jiten)
• Persian: فرهنگ جغرافیایی (farhang-e joğrâfiyâyi), جاینامه (fa) (jâynâme)
• Polish: gazeter m
• Russian: географи́ческий спра́вочник m (geografíčeskij správočnik), географи́ческий лексико́н m (geografíčeskij leksikón)
• Spanish: nomenclátor (es)
• Swedish: ortnamnsregister (sv) n

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, 2019–2022.