Gazette

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For specific non-governmental newspapers, see The Gazette.

A gazette is a newspaper. In the governments of Commonwealth countries, a gazette is a government publication describing new laws and government decisions. It can also refer to the name of mainstream newspapers in the print media, such as the Montreal Gazette (for others in this genre, see The Gazette).

The word comes from gazzetta, a Venetian coin used to buy early Italian newspapers; the coin became a name for the papers themselves. The word was loaned into English to describe a newspaper. "Gazette" came to be used for an official government paper with the creation of the London Gazette in 1665.

The word "gazette" is also used as a transitive verb, meaning to announce or publish in a gazette: "Lake Nakuru was gazetted as a bird sanctuary in 1960, then was upgraded to National Park status in 1968."

[edit] Gazettes of Commonwealth countries

• Gazette of India
• Commonwealth of Australia Gazette
• Australian Public Service Gazette
• Canada Gazette
• Hong Kong Gazette [1]
• Gazette of Pakistan
• Philippine Official Gazette
• Singapore Gazette [2]
• Government Gazette of South Africa
• United Kingdom
  • London Gazette
  • Belfast Gazette
  • Edinburgh Gazette

[edit] Gazettes of non-Commonwealth countries

• Boletín Oficial del Estado, the gazette of the Spanish state
• Bundesanzeiger, the gazette of Germany
• Diário da República, the gazette of Portugal
• Diario Oficial de la Federación, Mexico's gazette
• Federal Register, the gazette of the federal government of the United States
• Iris Oifigiúil, the gazette of the government of the Republic of Ireland (originally called the Dublin Gazette)
• Journal Officiel de la République Française, the official gazette of France
• Official Journal of the European Union, the gazette of the European Union
• Mémorial, the gazette of Luxembourg
• Post- och Inrikes Tidningar, the gazette of Sweden
• Wiener Zeitung, the gazette of Austria