Other forms: gazettes
A gazette is an official journal, or a newspaper's name. The London Gazette, published in the gazette, the local gazette.
An official gazette is where a government publishes what it must make public, and appearing in one is how many appointments and bankruptcies become legally known. The name comes from a small Venetian coin, the price of the first printed news sheets.
1noungazetteAn official journal, or a newspaper's name.
“Our weekly village gazette is full of news about school plays and lost cats.”
gazette is a publication.
Venetian gazeta was a small coin, the price of a news sheet, and the name passed to the sheet itself.
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Borrowed from French gazette, from Italian gazzetta, from vec 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA