gazetteer

Example Sentences

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I have a gazetteer in the car, and when that fails, I ask people for directions.

From Seattle Times

In the days before satellite mapping or even gazetteers, he navigates to out-of-the way cemeteries using simple maps and notes filed away in a recipe box stored in the “date-cut truck.”

From Washington Times

Ted Gartner, a Garmin spokesman, said that the new corporate owner will not only continue publishing them but will be enhancing the gazetteers in coming months and years.

From Washington Times

The murders of innocent travelers at Istanbul's airport are another entry in a gazetteer of grief: Orlando, Tel Aviv, San Bernadino, Paris, Bangladesh and Brussels.

From US News

What this wry, shy genius created in one slim volume was not simply a collection of moving poetry but a “gazetteer of the English heart”.

From Economist