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gazette
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French gazette, from Italian gazzetta, from Venetan gazeta, from gazeta dele novità (literally “a gazeta (halfpenny) of news”), named for the cost (one gazeta) of the newspaper. Compare penny dreadful, dime novel. See gazzetta for more.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡəˈzɛt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛt
Noun
gazette (plural gazettes)
- A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically. [from 1605]
- (law, often capitalized and italicized in legislations) An official periodical publication published by a government containing legal and state notices, and in some cases, legislations, subsidiary legislations and bills.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
newspaper — see also newspaper
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Verb
gazette (third-person singular simple present gazettes, present participle gazetting, simple past and past participle gazetted) (transitive)
- To publish (something) in a gazette.
- (UK) To announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette; this pertained to both appointments and bankruptcies.
- Synonym: gazetteer
- 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
- Benjamin had already been gazetted captain and Kopp was in process of being gazetted major.
Derived terms
Translations
to publish (something) in a gazette
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to announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
gazette f (plural gazettes)
Descendants
- → Amharic: ጋዜጣ (gazeṭa)
- → Belarusian: газе́та (hazjéta)
- → Breton: kazetenn
- → English: gazette
- → German: Gazette
- → Silesian: gazyta
- → Khmer: កាសែត (kaasaet)
- → Polish: gazeta
- → Kashubian: gazéta
- → Russian: газе́та (gazéta)
- ⇒ Azerbaijani: qəzet
- ⇒ Bashkir: гәзит (gəzit)
- → Buryat: газетэ (gazjete)
- ⇒ Bezhta: газит (gazit)
- → Georgian: გაზეთ- (gazet-, stem), გაზეთი (gazeti, nominative singular)
- ⇒ Kazakh:
- Arabic script: گازەت (gazet)
- Cyrillic script: газет (gazet)
- ⇒ Kyrgyz: гезит (gezit)
- ⇒ Kildin Sami: газет (gazjet)
- ⇒ Skolt Sami: gaʹzaat, gaʹzeâʹt
- ⇒ Southern Altai: газет (gazet)
- → Tajik: газета (gazeta)
- ⇒ Tatar: газет (ğazet), гәзит (gäzit)
- ⇒ Turkmen: gazet
- ⇒ Uyghur: گېزىت (gëzit)
- → Uzbek: gazeta
- ⇒ Yakut: хаһыат (qahıat)
- → Tigrinya: ጋዜጣ (gazeṭa)
- → Ukrainian: газе́та (hazéta)
- → West Flemish: gazette
Further reading
- “gazette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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West Flemish
Etymology
Noun
gazette f
- newspaper (printed sheet published periodically)
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