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Definition of Gazetteer
1. Noun. A journalist who writes for a gazette.
2. Noun. A geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas).
Definition of Gazetteer
1. n. A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority.
Definition of Gazetteer
1. Noun. journalist ¹
2. Noun. publicist ¹
3. Noun. A geographic dictionary or encyclopedia, sometimes found as an index to an atlas. ¹
4. Noun. A newspaper. ¹
5. Noun. (obsolete) An alphabetical descriptive list of anything. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gazetteer
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Medical Definition of Gazetteer
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1. A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority.
2. A newspaper; a gazette.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gazetteer
Literary usage of Gazetteer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1842)
"gazetteer of the Slate of Neu> York: Comprising its Topography, Geology, ...
It has several advantages over Goddard's voluminous gazetteer of this State, ..."
2. American Annals of Education (1826)
"A gazetteer of the State of New Hampshire,—by John Farmer and Jacob B. Moore.
... This gazetteer furni-hes a fund of intelligence such as most persons have ..."
3. Letters and Other Writings of James Madison by James Madison (1865)
"I answered that I could not undertake to judge how far a gazetteer for the ...
In his reply, just received, he says, "As to a Geography and gazetteer of ..."
4. The Methodist Review (1855)
"WE have received the eighth, ninth, and tenth numbers of "Harper's gazetteer of
the World" completing the work, which contains one thousand nine hundred and ..."
5. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1900)
"He then went on, in a long letter, to show that he really was an ill-used man.f This
was precisely what the gazetteer wanted; and from that time forth for ..."
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