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Maps vs Gazetteer - What's the difference?

maps | gazetteer |

As nouns the difference between maps and gazetteer

is that maps is while gazetteer is journalist or gazetteer can be a geographic dictionary or encyclopedia, sometimes found as an index to an atlas.

As a verb maps

is (map).

maps

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (map)

    • Anagrams

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    gazetteer

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • journalist
  • 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

    (en noun)
  • A geographic dictionary or encyclopedia, sometimes found as an index to an atlas.
  • A newspaper.
  • (obsolete) An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.