gazetteer

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English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

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

Noun

gazetteer (plural gazetteers)

1. journalist
2. publicist

Translations

journalist

publicist

• Dutch: publiciteitsagent (nl)

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

geographic dictionary or encyclopedia

• Arabic: قاموس جغرافي (ar) (qaamuus jughraafiy) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地名辞典 (cmn) (dìmíng cídiǎn)

• French: gazetier (fr) m, index géographique (fr) m
• German: Ortslexikon (de) n

• Hungarian: helységnévtár (hu)
• Japanese: 地名辞典 (ja) (ちめいじてん, chimei jiten)
• Russian: географический справочник (ru) (geografíčeskij správočnik) m, географический лексикон (ru) (geografíčeskij leksikón) m