Example sentences for: gazetteer

How can you use “gazetteer” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Perhaps, because it probably serves most students as the single source for such matters, it should also include those addenda which, in Webster's 9th, consume 188 pages, e.g. a list of abbreviations, a gazetteer, etc.

  • Having had the opportunity to sift through so many American place names in a relatively short span, those of us who edited the Omni Gazetteer were particularly struck by the great diversity in American naming practices, and what it suggests about the various eras and cultures that were a part of the settlement of the country.

  • The Omni Gazetteer is a national gazetteer of the United States that is as comprehensive as possible.

  • The Times Atlas of the World (1967) does better; in the gazetteer it gives Lyons, France, see Lyon, and Marseilles, see Marseille.

  • So despite more than 200,000 populated place names recorded in the Omni Gazetteer , there are still many areas of the country where the place-name cover is thin.


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