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- Dictionarygazette/ɡəˈzɛt/
noun
- 1. a journal or newspaper: "the Westmorland Gazette"
verb
- 1. announce or publish (something) in an official gazette: British "we will need to gazette the bill if a decision cannot be reached imminently"
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A gazette is an official journal, a newspaper of record, or simply a newspaper. In English and French speaking countries, newspaper publishers have applied the name Gazette since the 17th century; today, numerous weekly and daily newspapers bear the name The Gazette.
to announce or publish something in an official list or record: The site was settled in 1863 as a livestock station, proclaimed a town in 1880, and gazetted a borough in 1885. There were campaigns to conserve the forest, wetlands and volcanic areas by gazetting them as national parks.
These official journals contained notices of government appointments and promotions, as well as items like bankruptcies, property transfers, and engagements. In British English, gazette can also refer to the kind of announcement that one might find in such a publication. It can also be used as a verb meaning "to announce or publish in a gazette."
gazette, originally, a newssheet containing an abstract of current events, the forerunner of the modern newspaper. The word is derived from the Italian gazzetta, a name given to informal news or gossip sheets first published in Venice in the mid-16th century.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Gazette definition: a newspaper (now used chiefly in the names of newspapers). See examples of GAZETTE used in a sentence.
noun. 1. a. a newspaper or official journal. b. ( capital when part of the name of a newspaper) the Thame Gazette. 2. British. an official document containing public notices, appointments, etc. Abbreviation: gaz. verb. 3. (transitive) British. to announce or report (facts or an event) in a gazette. Collins English Dictionary.
to announce or publish something in an official list or record: The site was settled in 1863 as a livestock station, proclaimed a town in 1880, and gazetted a borough in 1885. There were campaigns to conserve the forest, wetlands and volcanic areas by gazetting them as national parks.
