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Definition of gazetteer in English:

gazetteer

noun ˌɡazəˈtɪəˌɡæzəˈtɪr
  • A geographical index or dictionary.

    地名索引,地名词典

    a gazetteer of place names of the Aegean
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A digital gazetteer will provide access by specific geographic citations.
    • History is, for him, a gazetteer for the present and a guidebook for the future.
    • His theatrical connections, his library with its absorbing gazetteers and high-shelved ‘adult’ reading, his sense of etiquette and of the unsaid, ally him symbolically with the realm of the imagination.
    • We are used to refreshing our memories from written material, maps and gazetteers.
    • This delightful volume also includes a valuable gazetteer (complete with coordinates) and a passionate conservation section.
    • Evidence that banditry was a genuine and serious problem can be found in local gazetteers of the period.
    • Guidebooks and gazetteers suggest the expanding public knowledge of the temple's history and contents.
    • This vast atlas is something different: a gazetteer of all that is most inventive, inspiring and humane in the architecture of the past five years.
    • The authors have tracked down with immense care as many missions as possible, each recorded in a valuable gazetteer at the end of the book.
    • For coordinates of the tag locations of Asian specimens, and elevations of those locations where possible, we used a variety of maps, atlases, and gazetteers.
    • And eventually we managed to produce a listing, a gazetteer and directory of all the known pipe organs in Australia, and that was actually first completed about 1976.
    • A gazetteer published in 1819 described the museum as: neatly arranged and handsomely filled with several thousand articles, such as paintings, waxwork, natural and artificial curiosities.
    • Three basic features are needed for resolution of this problem via the Internet: accurate, detailed on-line gazetteers and maps; searchable or downloadable locality databases; and online access to museum catalogs.
    • Although gazetteers are often rich sources of local information, they were compiled to satisfy agendas that seldom included detailed discussions of local unrest.
    • Many interesting sights are mentioned, but in many cases only incomplete directions are given for finding them: the book is more a guide than a gazetteer.
    • For the purposes of the gazetteer Britain is divided into eleven regions; each region is introduced by a map showing the present passenger rail network, together with freight-only or closed lines containing listed buildings.
    • Travel accounts, gazetteers, and geographies were abundant, but few could claim literary merit or accurate information.
    • A reader interested in this aspect would at least have the gazetteer to fall back on as a reference.
    • Sandwiched between a brief but useful introduction and conclusion, the bulk of its pages are in effect a gazetteer of churches and other ecclesiastical buildings in the six Border Marches (from east to west, Scottish and English in turn).
    • This preparation project gave the students an opportunity to look at old photos, newspaper articles, the census, city directories, diaries, gazetteers, maps, and postcards.

Origin

Early 17th century (in the sense 'journalist'): via French from Italian gazzettiere, from gazzetta (see gazette). The current sense comes from a late 17th-century gazetteer called The Gazetteer's: or, Newsman's Interpreter: Being a Geographical Index.

Rhymes

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Definition of gazetteer in US English:

gazetteer

nounˌɡazəˈtirˌɡæzəˈtɪr
  • A geographical index or dictionary.

    地名索引,地名词典

    a gazetteer of place names of the Aegean
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A gazetteer published in 1819 described the museum as: neatly arranged and handsomely filled with several thousand articles, such as paintings, waxwork, natural and artificial curiosities.
    • Although gazetteers are often rich sources of local information, they were compiled to satisfy agendas that seldom included detailed discussions of local unrest.
    • History is, for him, a gazetteer for the present and a guidebook for the future.
    • Three basic features are needed for resolution of this problem via the Internet: accurate, detailed on-line gazetteers and maps; searchable or downloadable locality databases; and online access to museum catalogs.
    • His theatrical connections, his library with its absorbing gazetteers and high-shelved ‘adult’ reading, his sense of etiquette and of the unsaid, ally him symbolically with the realm of the imagination.
    • Sandwiched between a brief but useful introduction and conclusion, the bulk of its pages are in effect a gazetteer of churches and other ecclesiastical buildings in the six Border Marches (from east to west, Scottish and English in turn).
    • This vast atlas is something different: a gazetteer of all that is most inventive, inspiring and humane in the architecture of the past five years.
    • The authors have tracked down with immense care as many missions as possible, each recorded in a valuable gazetteer at the end of the book.
    • A digital gazetteer will provide access by specific geographic citations.
    • We are used to refreshing our memories from written material, maps and gazetteers.
    • And eventually we managed to produce a listing, a gazetteer and directory of all the known pipe organs in Australia, and that was actually first completed about 1976.
    • A reader interested in this aspect would at least have the gazetteer to fall back on as a reference.
    • Guidebooks and gazetteers suggest the expanding public knowledge of the temple's history and contents.
    • Evidence that banditry was a genuine and serious problem can be found in local gazetteers of the period.
    • For coordinates of the tag locations of Asian specimens, and elevations of those locations where possible, we used a variety of maps, atlases, and gazetteers.
    • Travel accounts, gazetteers, and geographies were abundant, but few could claim literary merit or accurate information.
    • Many interesting sights are mentioned, but in many cases only incomplete directions are given for finding them: the book is more a guide than a gazetteer.
    • For the purposes of the gazetteer Britain is divided into eleven regions; each region is introduced by a map showing the present passenger rail network, together with freight-only or closed lines containing listed buildings.
    • This delightful volume also includes a valuable gazetteer (complete with coordinates) and a passionate conservation section.
    • This preparation project gave the students an opportunity to look at old photos, newspaper articles, the census, city directories, diaries, gazetteers, maps, and postcards.

Origin

Early 17th century (in the sense ‘journalist’): via French from Italian gazzettiere, from gazzetta (see gazette). The current sense comes from a late 17th-century gazetteer called The Gazetteer's: or, Newsman's Interpreter: Being a Geographical Index.

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