gazetteer Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a journalist who writes for a gazette
  2. noun a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas)

WordNet

Gaz`et*teer" noun
Etymology
Cf. F. gazetier.
Definitions
  1. A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority. Johnson.
  2. A newspaper; a gazette. Obs. Burke.
  3. A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc., of many places.
  4. An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.

Webster 1913