Associations to the word «Gazetteer»

Wiktionary

GAZETTEER, noun. Journalist
GAZETTEER, noun. Publicist
GAZETTEER, noun. A geographic dictionary or encyclopedia, sometimes found as an index to an atlas.
GAZETTEER, noun. A newspaper.
GAZETTEER, noun. (obsolete) An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.

Dictionary definition

GAZETTEER, noun. A journalist who writes for a gazette.
GAZETTEER, noun. A geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats