gazetteer
1Gazetteer — Pays  Union europeenne !Union européenne Langue anglais Périodicité Irrégulière Format 420 mm x 600 mm …
2gazetteer — gaz‧et‧teer [ˌgæzˈtɪə 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 …
3gazetteer — 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… …
4Gazetteer — 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… …
5Gazetteer — (engl., spr. settīr), Zeitungsschreiber, Zeitungshändler; auch Titel für Ortslexika etc., die zur Verbreitung von Annoncen dienen …
6gazetteer — ► 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 …
7gazetteer — [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 …
8Gazetteer — 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… …
9Gazetteer — 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 …
10gazetteer — 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,… …
