Gazette Meaning
/ɡəˈzɛt/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically.
nounAn official periodical publication published by a government containing legal and state notices, and in some cases, legislations, subsidiary legislations and bills.
Sentence Examples
The official gazette published government announcements.
The local gazette reported on community news.
The local gazette published the official notice yesterday.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The local ____ published a story about the town festival.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The official government ____ published the details of the new laws that were passed by the legislature.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Benjamin had already been gazetted captain and Kopp was in process of being gazetted major."
— 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The local ____ published a story about the town festival.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The official government ____ published the details of the new laws that were passed by the legislature.