a list of place names published as a book, at the end of a book or as an online resource 地名词典;(书末的)地名索引 Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘journalist’): via French from Italian gazzettiere, from gazzetta (see gazette). The current sense comes from a late 17th-cent. gazetteer called The Gazetteer's: or, Newsman's Interpreter: Being a Geographical Index.