gazetteer
- n a journalist who writes for a gazette
- n a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas)
- Talking about where he has been in the past two frantic years, Alex Haley sounds like a gazetteer.
- Or to entries in a specialized gazetteer: Rockingham, Bundy, Brentwood.
- About the rarest of current reference books is a gazetteerthe vast descriptive index of towns, cities, counties, countries, mountains, valleys and rivers all over the world.