Gazette Definition

gə-zĕt
gazetted, gazettes, gazetting
noun
A newspaper.
Webster's New World
An official journal.
American Heritage
Any of various official publications containing announcements and bulletins.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
To publish, announce, or list in a gazette.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Gazette

Noun

Singular:
gazette
Plural:
gazettes

Origin of Gazette

  • 1605; from French gazette, from Italian gazzetta, from Venetian gazeta dele novità (17th cent.), named for the gazeta ‘halfpenny’ (first minted 1539), diminutive of Latin gāza ‘treasure’, from Ancient Greek γάζα (gáza), from Persian ganj ‘royal treasury’ (mod. گنجینه (ganjineh)). The Venetian gazeta (newspaper) cost a gazeta (coin).

    From Wiktionary

  • French from Italian gazzetta probably from Italian dialectal gazeta a small coin (possibly from the price)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Gazette Sentence Examples

  • The first newspaper, the Bermuda Gazette, was published in 1784.

  • In 1806 he received in lieu of a pension the nominal office of the writership of the Edinburgh Gazette, with a salary of £300.

  • As for the " Declaration," the original records of the transactions of Mecklenburg county were destroyed by fire in 1800, but it is claimed that a copy of the " Declaration " was made from memory in the same year, and when, in 1819, a controversy had arisen as to where the movement for independence originated, this copy was published, first in the Raleigh Register and North Carolina Gazette and then in many other newspapers.

  • In September 1729 he bought at a merely nominal price The Pennsylvania Gazette, a weekly newspaper which Keimer had started nine months before to defeat a similar project of Franklin's, and which Franklin conducted until 1765.

  • Franklin wrote a paper on the causes of earthquakes for his Gazette of the 15th of December 1737; and he eagerly collected material to uphold his theory that waterspouts and whirlwinds resulted from the same causes.

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Words Starting With

GGAGAZ

Words Ending With

ETETTE

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Words Starting With G and Ending With E

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With G7 Letter Words Ending With E