gazette
English edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
gazette (plural gazettes)
- A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically. [from 1605]
- (law, often capitalized and italicized in legislations) A official periodical publication published by a government containing legal and state notices, and in some cases, legislations, subsidiary legislations and bills.
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newspaper — see also newspaper
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official publication
Verb edit
gazette (third-person singular simple present gazettes, present participle gazetting, simple past and past participle gazetted) (transitive)
- To publish (something) in a gazette.
- (UK) To announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette; this pertained to both appointments and bankruptcies.
- Synonym: gazetteer
- 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
- Benjamin had already been gazetted captain and Kopp was in process of being gazetted major.
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Translations edit
to publish (something) in a gazette
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to announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette
See also edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian gazzetta.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gazette f (plural gazettes)
Descendants edit
- → Amharic: ጋዜጣ (gazeṭa)
- → Belarusian: газе́та (hazjéta)
- → Breton: kazetenn
- → English: gazette
- → German: Gazette
- → Silesian: gazyta
- → Khmer: កាសែត (kaasaet)
- → Polish: gazeta
- → Russian: газе́та (gazéta)
- ⇒ Azerbaijani: qəzet
- ⇒ Bashkir: гәзит (gəzit)
- → Buryat: газетэ (gazjete)
- ⇒ Bezhta: газит (gazit)
- → Georgian: გაზეთ- (gazet-, stem), გაზეთი (gazeti, nominative singular)
- ⇒ Kazakh:
- ⇒ Kyrgyz: гезит (gezit)
- ⇒ Kildin Sami: газет (gaz’et)
- ⇒ Skolt Sami: gaʹzaat, gaʹzeâʹt
- ⇒ Southern Altai: газет (gazet)
- → Tajik: газета (gazeta)
- ⇒ Tatar: газет (ğazet), гәзит (gäzit)
- ⇒ Turkmen: gazet
- ⇒ Uyghur: گېزىت (gëzit)
- → Uzbek: gazeta
- ⇒ Yakut: хаһыат (qahıat)
- → Tigrinya: ጋዜጣ (gazeṭa)
- → Ukrainian: газе́та (hazéta)
- → West Flemish: gazette
Further reading edit
- “gazette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
West Flemish edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
gazette f
- newspaper (printed sheet published periodically)
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