gazetteer
- noun
- /ˌɡæzəˈtɪr/
- Archaic
:
cronista
- Holmes uses, and at times seems even to personify, the Victorian gazetteer.
Examples
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In the 19th century, a popular gazetteer provided valuable insights into the lives of ordinary people during turbulent times.
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The announcement in the Gazetteer occupied a single square inch at the bottom of the second page: Renowned Mathematician and Geometrician G. Craige to Address Young Men's
Fiction book (2002) -
The concentration of the functions necessary to an industrial-commercial economy in cities, or close by them (mining apart), is indisputable and plain from mid-century gazetteers and other sources.
Academic text (1990) -
The historian referenced an old gazetteer to uncover details about the local area during the Revolutionary War.
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As a renowned gazetteer, she wrote extensively about the social changes of her time in various newspapers.
Synonyms
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1.1
A person who finds and tells news on TV, radio, or newspapers
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2.3
A person who reports news for a newspaper, magazine, TV, or website
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7.2
A person who writes down events in the order they happen
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gazetteer originally meant a writer for a gazette, which was a cheap Italian 'newspaper' named after a 'small coin'. So, a gazetteer was simply a person who worked for a newspaper, like a 'reporter' or 'journalist'.