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   Gaz·et·teer

   /ˌɡazəˈtir/

   

   noun

   • 1. a geographical index or dictionary: "a gazetteer of place names of the Aegean"

   Word Origin 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.

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