Definition of Gazetteers

1. Noun. (plural of gazetteer) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gazetteers

1. gazetteer [n] - See also: gazetteer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gazetteers

gazelle in the garden
gazelle on the lawn
gazellelike
gazelles
gazement
gazements
gazer
gazers
gazes
gazeth
gazets
gazette
gazetted
gazetteer
gazetteers (current term)
gazettes
gazetting
gazettist
gazettists
gazier
gaziest
gazillion
gazillionaire
gazillionaires
gazillions
gazillionth
gazillionths
gazing
gazingstock

Literary usage of Gazetteers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum by Bernard Barham Woodward (1904)
"gazetteers. [United Suites] The National Gazetteer : a geographical dictionary ... gazetteers. [United States] A Dictionary of Geographic Positions in the ..."

2. Guide to the Study and Use of Reference Books by Alice Bertha Kroeger, American Library Association, Isadore Gilbert Mudge (1917)
"gazetteers GENERAL Lippincott's new gazetteer; a complete pronouncing gazetteer or ... 910.3 The most complete and useful of the American gazetteers. ..."

3. The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. by Alexander Pope, Joseph Warton (1797)
"... gazetteers not to have lived within the time of this poem, and challenging ... gazetteers, and other political papers, between Feb. jo, 1731, and Feb. ..."

4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"•And monumental brass this record bears, " These are,—ah no ! these were the gazetteers !" Not so bold Arnall ; with a weicht of skull, Furious he dives, ..."

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