How to pronounce“gazetteer”in English
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Definitions of “gazetteer”
A person who writes for a gazette or newspaper; a journalist; (specifically) a journalist engaged by a government.
“Mount novv to Gallo-belgicus: Appeare / As deepe as a States-man, as a Gazettier.”
A gazette, a newspaper.
“The Hoſt look'd ſtedfaſtly at Adams, and after a Minute's ſilence aſked him "if he vvas one of the VVriters of the Gazetteers? for I have heard," ſays he, "they are vvrit by Parſons." "Gazetteers!" anſvvered Adams. "What is that?" "It is a dirty Nevvs-Paper," replied the Hoſt, "vvhich hath been given avvay all over the Nation for theſe many Years to abuſe Trade and honeſt Men, vvhich I vvould not ſuffer to lie on my Table, tho' it hath been offered me for nothing."”
Synonym of gazette (“to announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette”).
“[A]s an old friend I've got one favour to beg and to request to be granted. […] Why, when you've been gazetteered as Sir Robert and Lady Smugglefuss, that I shall be the first to be honoured with a visit.”
To report about (someone) in a gazette or newspaper.
“[O]ur modern canibals of the gazetteering tribe, leſs delicate than they, can divert themſelves in cool blood vvith the pangs of their friends, and exert their more licentious brutality amidſt the miſeries of nations in ſtrict alliance vvith their ovvn;—if ſuch inſects can be deem'd of any nation.”