gazetteer

n. 地名辞典, 公报作者

发音

UK /ˌɡæzəˈtɪə/
其它
US /ˌɡæzəˈtɪəɹ/

词形变化

gazetteers 复数 gazetteers 三单 gazetteering 现在分词 gazetteered 过去式 gazetteered 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person who writes for a gazette or newspaper; a journalist; (specifically) a journalist engaged by a government.

    古体 历史
  2. 2.

    A gazette, a newspaper.

    废旧 引申义
  3. 1.

    A dictionary or index of geographical locations.

    地名辞典

    志乘

    志书

    及物
  4. 2.

    A similar descriptive list (often alphabetical) of information on other subjects.

    及物 引申义
v.
  1. 1.

    Synonym of gazette (“to announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette”).

    及物
  2. 2.

    To report about (someone) in a gazette or newspaper.

    古体 及物
  3. 1.

    To describe the geography of (a country or other place) in a gazetteer (etymology 2, noun etymology 2, noun sense 1).

    及物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

journalist dictionary lexicon

整体词 1

atlas

词源

The noun is borrowed from French gazettier (archaic), gazetier (“journalist, newspaperman”) + English -eer (suffix forming agent nouns denoting people associated with or engaged in a specified activities). Gazettier, gazetier are derived from gazette (“newspaper”) + -ier (suffix denoting a profession); and gazette from Italian gazzetta, from Venetan gazeta, from gazeta dele novità (literally “a gazeta of news”) (referring to the cost of the newspaper, a gazeta being a Venetian coin of little value, whence English gazet (obsolete)), possibly a diminutive of Latin gaza (“riches, treasure; treasury”), ultimately from Old Median *ganǰam (“treasure; wealth”). The English word is analysable as gazette + -eer. The verb is derived from the noun.

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