Look up: gazetteer

1. Gazetteer
   Dictionary of geographical names, details ...
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2. Gazetteer
   A list of spatial entities held in computer or printed form, such as properties or streets, which allows for rapid search or query.
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3. gazetteer
   [n] - a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas)
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4. Gazetteer
   Geographical dictionary
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5. Gazetteer
   Gaz`et·teer' noun [ Confer French gazetier .] 1. A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority. Johnson. 2. A newspaper; a gazette. [ Obsolete] Burke. 3. A geographical dictionary...
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6. gazetteer
   1. A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority. ... 2. A newspaper; a gazette. ... 3. <geography> A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc, of many places. ... 4. An alphabetical descriptive list of anything. ... Origin: Cf. F. Gazetier. ... (20 Mar 1998) ...
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7. gazetteer
   noun a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas)
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8. Gazetteer
   • (n.) A newspaper; a gazette. • (n.) A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc., of many places. • (n.) An alphabetical descriptive list of anything. • (n.) A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority.
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9. gazetteer
   (from the article `dictionary`) ...is called a concordance. Theoretically, a good dictionary could be compiled by organizing into one list a large number of concordances. A word ...
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10. gazetteer
    gazetteer (găz"itēr') , dictionary or encyclopedia listing alphabetically the names of places, political divisions, and physical features of the earth and giving some information about each. The term gazetteer originally was applied to one who wrote a gazette. It was first used i...
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11. Gazetteer
    A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary, a book containing descriptions of natural and political divisions, countries, cities, towns, rivers, mountains, etc, alphabetically arranged. Among the more famous gazetteer have been M'Culloch's Geographical Dictionary, Longmans' Gazetteer of the World, Bla...
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12. Gazetteer
    Route Map from the 1891 "Grain Dealers and Shippers Gazetteer" A `gazetteer` is a geographical dictionary or directory, an important reference for information about places and place names (see: toponymy), used in conjunction with a map or a full atlas.<ref name="aurousseau 61"...
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