Meaning of Gazetteer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who writes for a gazette or newspaper; a journalist; (specifically) a journalist engaged by a government.
   archaic, historical
2. A dictionary or index of geographical locations.
   transitive
3. A gazette, a newspaper.
   broadly, obsolete
4. A similar descriptive list (often alphabetical) of information on other subjects.
   broadly, transitive

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Examples

“Mount⟳ novv to Gallo-belgicus: Appeare / As deepe as a States-man, as a Gazettier.”

“Did I tell⟳ you I have⟳ made Ford Gazetteer, with two hundred pounds a year salary, besides perquisites.”

“So—Satire is no more—I feel⟳ it die⟳— / No Gazeteer more innocent than I!”

“[Richard] Steele had been appointed Gazetteer by Sunderland [i.e., Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, Secretary of State for the Southern Department], at the request⟳, it is said, of [Joseph] Addison; and thus had access to foreign intelligence earlier and more authentic than was in those times within the reach⟳ of an ordinary news-writer.”

“Within a week, the amazed Gazetteers (Newspaper Editors we now call⟳ them) can behold the actual advent of horse, foot and artillery regiments at Magdeburg; actual rendezvous begun, and with a frightful equable velocity going on day after day.”

“The Hoſt look'd ſtedfaſtly at Adams, and after a Minute's ſilence aſked him "if he vvas one of the VVriters of the Gazetteers? for I have⟳ heard," ſays he, "they are vvrit by Parſons." "Gazetteers!" anſvvered Adams. "What is that?" "It is a dirty Nevvs-Paper," replied the Hoſt, "vvhich hath been given avvay all over the Nation for theſe many Years to abuſe Trade⟳ and honeſt Men, vvhich I vvould not ſuffer to lie⟳ on my Table, tho' it hath been offered me for nothing."”

“Confus'd above, / Glaſſes and bottles, pipes and gazetteers, / As if the table even itſelf vvas drunk, / Lie⟳ a vvet broken ſcene; […]”

“All the common-place lamentations upon the decay of trade⟳, the encreaſe of taxes, and the high price of labour and proviſions, are here retailed again and again in the ſame tone vvith vvhich they have⟳ dravvled through columns of Gazetteers and Advertiſers for a century together.”

“The kind Reception the Gazetteer has met vvith in the VVorld, manifeſted by the ſeveral Editions that have⟳ been of it, vvithin the compaſs of a fevv Years; and indeed, the Conveniency of a Compendious Undertaking of this kind, have⟳ induced us to go on vvith a ſecond Part, comprehending the other three Quarters of the VVorld, viz. Aſia, Africa and America; ſince the firſt had confin'd it ſelf entirely vvithin the Boundaries of Europe.”

“The "Polyolbion" [by Michael Drayton] is nothing less than a versified gazetteer of England and Wales,—fortunately Scotland was not yet annexed, or the poem would have⟳ been even longer, and already it is the plesiosaurus of verse. Mountains, rivers, and even marshes are personified, to narrate⟳ historical episodes, or to give⟳ us geographical lectures.”

“This is the first volume of a gazetteer which is now being published. It may be looked upon as the very latest authority.”

“According to a gazetteer of 1662 called Edo meisho ki, the Ōji Inari Shrine was the "big boss" (sō-tsukasa) of all the Inari shrines around Tokyo. […] Other gazetteers of the period preserve⟳ a story holding that on the last⟳ day of the year, innumerable foxes would gather at a certain mulberry tree to worship⟳ at the shrine, making foxfire, which could be seen from Edo.”

“[A]ll the brighter stars of the sky are registered in their true relations one to another, on charts and photographic plates. […] When a higher precision is required, one must consult⟳ those gazetteers of the sky known as star catalogues.”

“The mountain was McKinley. At twenty thousand feet, it was a third lower than Everest but, in the gazetteers of mountaineering, was highly prized because its rise⟳ from plain to peak – what climbers call⟳ the 'uplift', a technical description with a metaphor hiding behind it – is greater than that of the Nepalese skyscraper.”

“Statistical gazetteers of the time that were written explicitly for merchants, such as Timothy Pitkin's Statistical View⟳, were filled with pages of international import and export data but included only a few, rather meager population tables.”

“Unlike other prehistoric processes, there is no comprehensive gazetteer of radiocarbon dates for the entire Bell Beaker phenomenon apart from a few high-quality regional datasets[…].”

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