gazetteer

gazetteer
Synonyms and related words:
atlas, biographical dictionary, calendar, casebook, catalog, catalogue raisonne, chemical dictionary, city directory, city editor, classified catalog, columnist, concordance, copy chief, copy editor, copyman, copyreader, correspondent, cub reporter, cyclopedia, desk dictionary, dialect dictionary, diaskeuast, diatesseron, dictionary, dictionary catalog, dictionary of quotations, directory, editor, editorial writer, electronics dictionary, encyclopedia, etymological dictionary, feature editor, foreign correspondent, foreign-language dictionary, general dictionary, geological dictionary, gloss, glossary, gradus, harmony, index, interviewer, journalist, leader writer, leg man, lexicon, managing editor, news editor, newsman, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, nomenclator, onomasticon, own correspondent, paragrapher, paragraphist, phone book, phrase book, polyglot, polyglot dictionary, pressman, promptorium, publicist, reader, record book, reference book, reporter, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter, rhyming dictionary, science dictionary, slang dictionary, slotman, sob sister, source book, special correspondent, specialized dictionary, sports editor, studbook, subeditor, synonym dictionary, synonymy, telephone book, telephone directory, terminology, thesaurus, treasury of words, unabridged dictionary, vocabulary, war correspondent, word list, wordbook, work of reference

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  • Gazetteer — Pays  Union europeenne !Union européenne Langue anglais Périodicité Irrégulière Format 420 mm x 600 mm …   Wikipédia en Français

  • gazetteer — gaz‧et‧teer [ˌgæzˈtɪə ǁ ˈtɪr] noun [countable] a book listing the names of places and information about each place. The word Gazetteer is sometimes used in the title of such books: • Bartholomew s Gazetteer shows trading facts about each country …   Financial and business terms

  • gazetteer — 1610s, “journalist,” from GAZETTE (Cf. gazette) (n.) + EER (Cf. eer). Meaning “geographical dictionary” is from 1704, from Laurence Eachard s 1693 geographical handbook for journalists, The Gazetteer s, or Newsman s, Interpreter, second… …   Etymology dictionary

  • Gazetteer — Gaz et*teer , n. [Cf. F. gazetier.] 1. A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority. Johnson. [1913 Webster] 2. A newspaper; a gazette. [Obs.] Burke. [1913 Webster] 3. A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Gazetteer — (engl., spr. settīr), Zeitungsschreiber, Zeitungshändler; auch Titel für Ortslexika etc., die zur Verbreitung von Annoncen dienen …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • gazetteer — ► NOUN ▪ a geographical index or dictionary. ORIGIN originally in the sense «journalist» (for whom such an index was provided): from Italian gazzettiere, from gazzetta gazette …   English terms dictionary

  • gazetteer — [gaz΄ə tir′] n. [Fr gazettier] 1. Archaic a person who writes for a gazettea person who writes for a gazette 2. [prob. after L. Echard s use for his geographical dictionary ( c. 1700)] a dictionary or index of geographical names …   English World dictionary

  • Gazetteer — A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or directory, an important reference for information about places and place names (see: toponomy), used in conjunction with a map or a full atlas.Aurousseau, 61.] It typically contains information… …   Wikipedia

  • Gazetteer — Ein Ortslexikon, Ortsverzeichnis oder Gazetteer ist eine Publikation, die die Orte und Gemeinden einer größeren oder kleineren Region auflistet. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Arten 2 Geschichte 3 Wichtige Werke nach Gebieten 3.1 Deutschland 3.2 Schweiz …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • gazetteer — gaz|et|teer [ˌgæzıˈtıə US ˈtır] n [Date: 1700 1800; Origin: From The Gazetteer s: or, Newsman s Interpreter (1693), a dictionary of place names by Laurence Echard, from gazetteer newspaper writer (17 19 centuries)] a list of names of places,… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • gazetteer — [ˌgazə tɪə] noun a geographical index or dictionary. Origin C17 (in the sense journalist ): via Fr. from Ital. gazzettiere, from gazzetta (see gazette); current sense is from a gazetteer called The Gazetteer s: or, Newsman s Interpreter …   English new terms dictionary

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