gazetteer

Etymology 1

gazette + -eer, from French gazetier (“newspaperman”)

noun

1. journalist
2. publicist

Etymology 2

From The gazetteer's: or newsman's interpreter, a geographical index edited by Laurence Echard, 1st ed. published 1693. In 1704, in the second volume Echard referred to the work as Gazetteer.

noun

1. A geographic dictionary or index.
2. A newspaper.
3. (obsolete) An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.

verb

1. (transitive) To describe in a gazetteer.
   The success of the gigantic undertaking has been unparalleled: few countries, if any, are more thoroughly gazetteered than India. 2002, W. Francis, Gazetteer of South India, volumes 1-2