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Meanings of gazetteer in English

Russian
географический справочник
Portuguese
gazetteer
Catalan
nomenclàtor
Spanish
diccionario geográfico
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Geographical dictionary or directory used in conjunction with a map or atlas.

географический справочник
Usage of gazetteer in English
1
She despatched Zillah to the other side of the house for a gazetteer.
Poor Miss Finch
2
This is the first volume of a gazetteer which is now being published.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
3
Unsphinx this riddle for me, for my shelves have no gazetteer.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 / Letters 1821-184...
4
She studied map and gazetteer till late into the night.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 3
5
We can spare your opera, your gazetteer, your chemic analysis, your history, your syllogisms.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 / A Mag...
6
He uses a pen torch to read his gazetteer.
The Fuller Memorandum
7
By that learned, haughty disputant, he is termed 'a gazetteer by profession-byinclination a Methodist.'
The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 2
8
A gazetteer showed Bretfield to be three miles from a small station on the main line.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories
9
He knew his points of vantage by name; there were no references to gazetteer or atlas.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 2
10
I travel with a gazetteer and some guide-books.
A Mortal Antipathy
11
To the pages of the gazetteer Lawrence would have been known as a manufacturing town of importance.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896
12
With the aid of a gazetteer and atlas, you must find every place that is spoken of.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2.
13
Not in any geography or gazetteer.
An Unsocial Socialist
14
I am engaged as a poetical gazetteer, to say truth, and am writing a poem on the campaign.
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of H...
15
Lippincott's gazetteer of the world.
A Library Primer
16
Charting the history and nature of the lake, this is a parish-by-parish gazetteer that starts in Killaloe and travels north.
The Irish Times