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Word: Gazetteer
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
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
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˌɡazɪˈtɪə
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a geographical index or dictionary
Short Definition:geographical index or dictionary
Examples:- a gazetteer of place names of the Aegean
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