Agazette is anofficial journal, anewspaper of record, or simply anewspaper.
In English and French speaking countries, newspaper publishers have applied the nameGazette since the 17th century; today, numerous weekly and daily newspapers bear the nameThe Gazette.
Gazette is aloanword from the French language, which is, in turn, a 16th-century permutation of the Italiangazzetta, which is the name of a particularVenetian coin.Gazzetta became anepithet fornewspaper during the early and middle 16th century, when the first Venetian newspapers cost one gazzetta.[1] (Compare with other vernacularisms from publishing lingo, such as the Britishpenny dreadful and the Americandime novel.) This loanword, with its variouscorruptions, persists in numerous modern languages (Slavic languages,Turkic languages).
InEngland, with the 1700 founding ofThe Oxford Gazette (which became theLondon Gazette), the wordgazette came to indicate a public journal of the government; today, such a journal is sometimes called agovernment gazette. For some governments, publishing information in a gazette was or is a legal necessity by which official documentscome into force and enter thepublic domain. Such is the case for documents published inRoyal Thai Government Gazette (est. 1858), and inThe Gazette of India (est. 1950).
Thegovernment of the United Kingdom requires government gazettes of its member countries. Publication of theEdinburgh Gazette, the official government newspaper in Scotland, began in 1699. TheDublin Gazette ofIreland followed in 1705, but ceased when theIrish Free State seceded from the United Kingdom in 1922; theIris Oifigiúil (Irish:Official Gazette) replaced it. TheBelfast Gazette ofNorthern Ireland published its first issue in 1921.
Chiefly in British English, thetransitive verbto gazette means "to announce or publish in a gazette"; especially wheregazette refers to a public journal or a newspaper of record. For example, "Lake Nakuru was gazetted as a bird sanctuary in 1960 and upgraded toNational Park status in 1968."[2]British Army personnel decorations, promotions, and officer commissions are gazetted in theLondon Gazette, the "Official Newspaper of Record for the United Kingdom".[3]Gazettal (a noun) is the act of gazetting; for example, "the gazettal of the bird sanctuary".[4]
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