gazette

1605; borrowed from French gazette, from Italian gazzetta, from Venetian 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.

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈzɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

gazette (plural gazettes)

1. A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically.
2. (law, often capitalized and italicized in legislations) A official periodical publication published by a government containing legal and state notices, and in some cases, legislations, subsidiary legislations and bills.

• → Kikuyu: ngathĩti
• → Maori: kāhiti
• → Swahili: gazeti

gazette (third-person singular simple present gazettes, present participle gazetting, simple past and past participle gazetted)

1. To publish in a gazette.
2. (Britain) To announce the status of in an official gazette. This pertained to both appointments and bankruptcies.
   • 1938, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 12, in Homage to Catalonia‎, London: Secker & Warburg:

     Benjamin had already been gazetted captain and Kopp was in process of being gazetted major.

• degazette

• dime novel
• penny dreadful

From Italian gazzetta.

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gazette f (plural gazettes)

1. gazette

• “gazette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French gazette.

gazette f

1. newspaper (printed sheet published periodically)