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单词 gazetteer
释义

gazetteern.

/ɡazəˈtɪə/
Forms: Also 1600s gazettier, gazetiere.
Etymology: < French gazettier (now written gazetier ) = Italian gazzettiere : see gazette n. and -eer suffix1.
1.
a. One who writes in a gazette; a journalist, a retailer of news. (Now historical.)
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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun]
gazetteer1611
newsmaker1648
diurnalist1649
diurnaller1661
gazette-writera1678
journalist1693
journalier1714
couranteer1733
magazine-writer1787
diarian1800
hack1803
pressman1818
print journalist1965
journo1967
newsperson1973
Bigfoot1980
1611 J. Donne in T. Coryate Crudities sig. d3 Mount now to Gallo-belgicus; Appeare As deepe a States-man, as a Gazettier [1650 Poems p. 262 Garretteir].
1653 G. Webbe Pract. Quietnes xxvi. 249 Such Makebates, idle Garitiers [? read Gazitiers], and tatling News-carriers, are very rife every where in the world.
1664 J. Evelyn Let. 31 Oct. in Diary & Corr. (1859) III. 144 He styles himself Historiograph du Roy, the mighty meed of the commonest Gazetteer, as that of Conseiller du Roy is of every trifling pettifoger.
1671 A. Marvell Let. 9 Aug. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 324 I address myself, which is all I am good for, to be your Gazettier.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. Let. i The flimsy reveries of an ignorant gazetteer.
1817 J. W. Croker in Croker Papers 26 Nov. (1884) I Those who go out do not call upon me, so that I am but a bad gazetteer.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. vi. 460 Gazetteers, who would earn their wages..had to watch with all eagerness the movements of King August.
b. A journalist appointed and paid by Government.
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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > writer of official gazette
gazettist1625
gazetteer1711
1711 J. Swift Let. 8 Nov. in Wks. (1762) XIV. 70 I have got poor Dr. King who was some time in Ireland, to be Gazetteer, which will be worth 250l. per annum to him.
1738 A. Pope One Thousand Seven Hundred & Thirty Eight 6 No Gazetteer more innocent than I.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Gazetteer... It was lately a term of the utmost infamy, being usually applied to wretches who were hired to vindicate the court.
1843 T. B. Macaulay Addison in Ess. (1887) 792 Steele had been appointed Gazetteer by Sunderland.
1884 W. J. Courthope Addison v. 85 The office of Gazetteer became henceforth a regular ministerial appointment.
2. A newspaper, gazette. Obsolete.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun]
intelligencer1598
courant1621
coranto1624
paper1642
mercury1643
newsletter1665
newspaper1667
slip1688
raga1734
news1738
gazetteer1742
sheet1754
news sheet1841
spread1848
linen-draper1857
newsprint1897
blat1932
linen1955
mimeo newspaper1973
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. xvii. 307Gazetteers,’ answered Adams; ‘What is that?’ ‘It is a dirty News-Paper,’ replied the Host. View more context for this quotation
1744 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons (new ed.) 155 Glasses and Bottles, Pipes and Gazetteers.
1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 3 They have drawled through columns of Gazetteers and Advertisers for a century together.
3. A geographical index or dictionary.A work of this kind, by L. Echard (ed. 2, 1693), bore the title ‘The Gazetteer's: or, Newsman's Interpreter: Being A Geographical Index’. ‘The Title’, he says, ‘was given me by a very eminent Person, whom I forbear to name’ (Pref. p. 1). In Part ii, published in 1704, the author refers to the book as ‘the Gazetteer’ simply (see quot.).
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1704 L. Echard Gazetteer's or Newsman's Interpreter (ed. 7) ii. Pref. The kind Reception the Gazetteer has met with in the World..[has] induced us to go on with a second Part.
1751 (title) England's Gazetteer, and accurate Description of all the Towns, Cities, Villages, &c.
1803 Gazetteer Scotl. Introd. p. xvii Scotland has five Universities..of which an account will be found in the Gazetteer.
1853 (title) Dictionary of Geography, forming a complete Gazetteer of the world.
1875 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1876) 2nd Ser. 137 The ‘Polyolbion’ is nothing less than a versified gazetteer of England and Wales.

Derivatives

gazeˈtteer v. (transitive) to describe geographically in gazetteers.
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1890 Chambers's Encycl. V. 120 Few countries, if any, are more thoroughly gazetteered than France.
gazeˈtteerage n. the class of gazette-writers.
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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > collectively
press gang1832
the fourth estate1837
gazetteerage1865
press1868
meeja1983
1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xxi. vi. 576 [He] saw..the general Gazetteerage everywhere, seized of this affair, and thrown into paroxysms at the size and complexion of it.
gazeˈtteering n. the making of gazetteers.
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society > communication > journalism > [noun] > making of gazetteers
gazetteering1875
1875 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1876) 2nd Ser. 137 Neither of them [Drayton and Daniel] could make poetry coalesce with gazetteering or chronicle-making.
gazeˈtteering adj. that writes in gazettes.
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1799 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1800) 3 152 You and your partner, and gazetteering brother chip, are all of the same block.
gazeˈtteerish adj. resembling the style of a gazetteer.
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1891 Rev. of Reviews Jan. 77/2 A brief paper on ‘Armour for Warships’, which is somewhat gazetteerish and historical.
gazeˈtteership n. the position of official gazetteer.
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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > writer of official gazette > position of
gazetteership1860
1860 A. L. Windsor Ethica v. 221 An unlucky paper in his ‘Tatler’ lost Steele his gazetteership.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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