gazette
/ɡəˈzɛt/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms gazettes gazetting gazetted
- noun A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically.
- noun (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.
- verb To publish (something) in a gazette.
- verb (UK) To announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette; this pertained to both appointments and bankruptcies.
- proper noun A locality in the Shire of Moyne and the Shire of Southern Grampians, south western Victoria, Australia
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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.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the British government, and containing legal and state notices.
- verb To announce or publish in a gazette; to announce officially, as an appointment, or a case of bankruptcy.
Etymology [F. gazette, It. gazzetta, perh. from gazetta a Venetian coin (see Gazet), said to have been the price of the first newspaper published at Venice; or perh. dim. of gazza magpie, a name perh. applied to the first newspaper; cf. OHG. agalstra magpie, G. elster.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “gazette”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details