Gazette
//ɡəˈzɛt// name, noun, verb
name, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically.
- 2 a newspaper or official journal wordnet
- 3 An official periodical publication published by a government containing legal and state notices, and in some cases, legislations, subsidiary legislations and bills.
Verb
- 1 To publish (something) in a gazette. transitive
- 2 publish in a gazette wordnet
- 3 To announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette; this pertained to both appointments and bankruptcies. UK, transitive
"Benjamin had already been gazetted captain and Kopp was in process of being gazetted major."
Proper Noun
- 1 A locality in the Shire of Moyne and the Shire of Southern Grampians, south western Victoria, Australia
Example
More examples"We had been friends, quite good friends; but never could I get beyond the same comradeship which I might have established with one of my fellow-reporters upon the Gazette–perfectly frank, perfectly kindly, and perfectly unsexual."
Etymology
Borrowed from French gazette, from Italian gazzetta, from Venetan gazeta, from gazeta dele novità (literally “a gazeta (halfpenny) of news”), named for the cost (one gazeta) of the newspaper. Compare penny dreadful, dime novel. See gazzetta for more.
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