gazetteer
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- noun
- /ˌɡæzəˈtɪr/
- Specialized
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geografía
- The travel guide included a gazetteer that provided essential information about national parks and historical sites.
- county gazetteer
- local gazetteers
Examples
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Two atlases, a gazetteer, and several books that included some geography along with other subjects had also been published.
Academic text (1998) -
But before we start, be sure to purchase the West Virginia Atlas and Gazetteer by DeLorme Publishing.
Academic text (2001) -
And for characters' names, I go not to the telephone directory but to the street names in the back of a gazetteer.
Academic text (2010) -
The historical records, such as local gazetteers or old maps, often confirm the locations of chosan clearly.
Academic text (2011) -
The file labeled Practice Masters contains a section on place geography that requires students to locate places by latitude and longitude, using information provided on the worksheet page and in the text gazetteer.
Academic text (1990) -
Diaoyu Island is recorded under Kavalan, Taiwan, in the Revised Gazetteer of Fujian Province (1871).
Blog text (33) -
Whether in the form of unpublished notes on the provenance of paintings, the records of their dimensions, or sketches of the works themselves, Scharf's notebooks amount to an amazing gazetteer of nineteenth-century art collecting.
Academic text (2012) -
Sherwood, Adiel. A Gazetteer of Georgia; Containing a Particular Description of the State; Its Resources, Counties, Towns, Villages, and Whatever Is Usual in Statistical Works. Atlanta, GA: Cherokee Pub. Co., 1970.
Academic text (2011) -
The librarian showed me the latest gazetteer, which lists all the towns and landmarks in our state.
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For my geography project, I referred to a comprehensive gazetteer that included detailed information about each country's major cities.
How Detailed
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gazetteer comes from gazette, a word that first meant an Italian 'small coin' and then the cheap 'newspaper' people could buy. Because these newspapers often printed lists of towns and place facts, a gazetteer came to mean a book or list of place names, so think of it as the 'place list' you use with maps.