gazetteer

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gazette +‎ -eer, from French gazetier (“newspaperman”)

gazetteer (plural gazetteers)

1. journalist
2. publicist

From The gazetteer's: or newsman's interpreter, a geographical index edited by Laurence Echard, 1st ed. published 1693. In 1704, in the second volume Echard referred to the work as Gazetteer.

gazetteer (plural gazetteers)

1. A geographic dictionary or index.
2. A newspaper.
3. (obsolete) An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.

gazetteer (third-person singular simple present gazetteers, present participle gazetteering, simple past and past participle gazetteered)

1. (transitive) To describe in a gazetteer.
   • 2002, W. Francis, Gazetteer of South India (volumes 1-2)

     The success of the gigantic undertaking has been unparalleled: few countries, if any, are more thoroughly gazetteered than India.

• “gazetteer”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.