Gazette
nounA newspaper, or an official journal that publishes government and legal notices.
How to spell gazette
7 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce gazette
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does gazette mean?
- nounA newspaper, or an official journal that publishes government and legal notices.
Gazette in a sentence
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The local gazette printed a story about the new bypass.
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His promotion was announced in the official government gazette.
Where does gazette come from?
Language of origin: Italian
The word comes from the Italian gazzetta, the name Venetians gave to the small printed news-sheets that circulated in the city during the sixteenth century. The most popular explanation is that gazzetta was originally the name of a small Venetian copper coin, the price you paid to read or buy one of these sheets, so the paper took the name of the coin. A rival theory links it to gazza, meaning 'magpie', a chattering bird whose gossip suited a sheet of news and rumour. English borrowed the word in the early 1600s by way of French gazette, and it quickly came to mean a newspaper, then later an official government journal that records appointments, honours, and legal notices. The doubled t and the -ette ending are the spelling trap, both inherited straight from the Italian and French forms.
How the word is built
- gazett- (from Italian gazzetta, a Venetian news-sheet)
- -e
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