gazetteer

Meanings

Noun

• journalist
• publicist
• A geographic dictionary or encyclopedia, sometimes found as an index to an atlas.
• A newspaper.
• An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.

Verb

• To describe in a gazetteer.

Origin

• gazette + -eer, from French gazetier ("newspaperman")
• From The gazetteer's: or newsman's interpreter, a geographical index edited by Laurence Echard, 1st ed. published 1693. In 1704, in the second volume Echard referred to the work as Gazetteer.