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Gazetteer   Listen
noun
Gazetteer  n.  
1.
A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority.
2.
A newspaper; a gazette. (Obs.)
3.
A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc., of many places.
4.
An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.






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"Gazetteer" Quotes from Famous Books



... delegates of the Societies north of the Tweed adhered to their main purpose, Parliamentary Reform, until, under the lead of the men of London, Sheffield, and Dublin, debates became almost Parisian in vehemence. As reported in the "Edinburgh Gazetteer" of 3rd December, they gave Robert Dundas the wished-for handle of attack. Then and there he decided to disperse the Convention, so he informed Henry Dundas in the following letter of 6th December: "Last Tuesday's '[Edinburgh] Gazetteer,' containing a further account of the proceedings ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose

... wanderings by permission of the Grand Duke Michael Borissovitch, and his own bishop, Gennadius. This fixes the time of his start so far that it must have taken place subsequent to 1462, and the author of the "Bombay Gazetteer," RE Poonah, assigns the period 1468 to 1474 as that of ...
— A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar; A Contribution to the History of India • Robert Sewell

... sentences, hard on the matter, without garnish of scorn. Kent, Sussex, Surrey, all the southern heights about London, round away to the south-western of the Hampshire heathland, were accurately mapped in the old warrior's brain. He knew his points of vantage by name; there were no references to gazetteer or atlas. A chain of forts and earthworks enables us to choose our ground, not for clinging to them, but for choice of time and place to give battle. If we have not been playing double-dyed traitor to ourselves, we have a preponderating field artillery; our ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... group, ten miles from the Mindanao coast; the largest island is Basilan, which has an area of four hundred and seventy-eight square miles, and there are forty-four dependent islands (fifty-seven, according to U. S. Gazetteer). (See Census ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55 • Various



Words linked to "Gazetteer" :   map collection, lexicon, book of maps, journalist



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