Definition of "gazette" []

• A newspaper. (noun)
• An official journal. (noun)
• Chiefly British An announcement in an official journal. (noun)
• Chiefly British To announce or publish in an official journal or in a newspaper. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In the year 1531, a newspaper was printed at Venice, for which the price charged was a Venetian coin called gazetta; and hence is derived our word gazette; the name of the coin having been transferred to the paper. 1"
• "The gazette is the last stop for draft laws before reaching parliament, where President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zimbabwe African"
• "It says the measure will come into force after its publication in the official gazette, which is expected "imminently"."