1610s, "journalist," from gazette (n.) + -eer. Meaning "geographical dictionary" is from 1704, from Laurence Eachard's 1693 geographical handbook for journalists, "The Gazetteer's, or Newsman's, Interpreter," second edition simply titled "The Gazetteer."
gazetteer 双语例句
1. The entire " Geographia " is the first atlas and gazetteer.
全部《地理学 》 可说是第一本地图集和地名辞典.
来自辞典例句
2. Any atlas , containing many pages of maps, normally includes an index, called a gazetteer.
任何载有多幅地图的地图集, 一般都附有一份地名索引.
来自辞典例句
3. Gazetteer South America: Coastal drainages of eastern and southern Brazil and Uruguay.
南美洲: 东方与巴西南部的海岸流域与乌拉圭.
来自互联网
4. Gazetteer South America: Amazon , Orinoco, and coastal river drainages of the Guianas.