gazette
n. countablen. an official newspaper or journal that publishes important news, legal notices, and government announcements. You often see this word in the names of local newspapers.
n. an official publication or periodical that records government announcements, legal notices, and public records. Often used in the proper names of regional newspapers or official state journals.
The government published the new law in the official gazette.
The local gazette remains the primary source for legal notices and public planning announcements in the county.
Before the digital age, citizens relied on the weekly gazette to track legislative changes and official appointments within the colonial administration.
Borrowed from French gazette, from Italian gazzetta, from Venetan gazeta, from gazeta dele novità (literally “a gazeta (halfpenny) of news”), named for the cost (one gazeta) of the newspaper. Compare penny dreadful, dime novel. See gazzetta for more.
Often appears as a proper noun in the titles of newspapers.