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gazetted

gazetted is the simple past and past participle of gazette.

Adjective

gazetted (not comparable)

  1. Listed in a gazette.
  2. (Hong-Kong) Of a beach: officially maintained as a facility for public bathing.

Meaning of gazette

Verb

gazette (third-person singular simple present gazettes, present participle gazetting, simple past and past participle gazetted)

  1. (transitive) To publish (something) in a gazette.
  2. (UK, transitive) To announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette; this pertained to both appointments and bankruptcies.
    • Benjamin had already been gazetted captain and Kopp was in process of being gazetted major.1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    gazetteer

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Words formed from gazetted

Questions about gazetted

What does gazetted mean?
Gazetted means listed in a gazette.
What is gazetted the simple past and past participle of?
Gazetted is the simple past and past participle of gazette.
What part of speech is gazetted?
Gazetted is an adjective.

Words near gazetted in the dictionary

  1. gazeth
  2. gazets
  3. gazettal
  4. gazettals
  5. gazette
  6. gazetted
  7. gazetteer
  8. gazetteered
  9. gazetteering
  10. gazetteerish
  11. gazetteers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gazetted (page history and authors); gazette (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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