/ ˌgæzəˈtɪə(r); NAmE -ˈtɪr/ noun
a list of place names published as a book or at the end of a book
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WORD ORIGIN
early 17th cent. (in the sense journalist ): via French from Italian gazzettiere , from gazzetta (see gazette ). The current sense comes from a late 17th-cent. gazetteer called The Gazetteer's: or, Newsman's Interpreter: Being a Geographical Index .