GAZETTEER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gazetteer mean? 

• GAZETTEER (noun)
  The noun GAZETTEER has 2 senses:

1. a journalist who writes for a gazette

2. a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas)

  Familiarity information: GAZETTEER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GAZETTEER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A journalist who writes for a gazette

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("gazetteer" is a kind of...):

journalist (a writer for newspapers and magazines)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("gazetteer" is a kind of...):

dictionary; lexicon (a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them)

Holonyms ("gazetteer" is a part of...):

atlas; book of maps; map collection (a collection of maps in book form)

 Context examples 

I walked to and fro, tried to read an old gazetteer, listened to the awful noises: looked at faces, scenes, and figures in the fire.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)