gazetteer

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “Mount novv to Gallo-belgicus: Appeare / As deepe as a States-man, as a Gazettier.”

2. isim A gazette, a newspaper.

   “Confus'd above, / Glaſſes and bottles, pipes and gazetteers, / As if the table even itſelf vvas drunk, / Lie a vvet broken ſcene; […]”

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

   “[A]s an old friend I've got one favour to beg and to request to be granted. […] Why, when you've been gazetteered as Sir Robert and Lady Smugglefuss, that I shall be the first to be honoured with a visit.”

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

   “[O]ur modern canibals of the gazetteering tribe, leſs delicate than they, can divert themſelves in cool blood vvith the pangs of their friends, and exert their more licentious brutality amidſt the miſeries of nations in ſtrict alliance vvith their ovvn;—if ſuch inſects can be deem'd of any nation.”

5. isim A dictionary or index of geographical locations.

   “This is the first volume of a gazetteer which is now being published. It may be looked upon as the very latest authority.”

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

   “[A]ll the brighter stars of the sky are registered in their true relations one to another, on charts and photographic plates. […] When a higher precision is required, one must consult those gazetteers of the sky known as star catalogues.”

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

   “Neither of them could make poetry coalesce with gazetteering or chronicle-making. It was like trying to put a declaration of love into the forms of a declaration in trover.”