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Post-Gazette

Post-Gazette proper noun: the largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, formed in 1927 by merging the Pittsburgh Post and the Pittsburgh Gazette Times.

Proper noun

the Post-Gazette

  1. (Pennsylvania, Western) The largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, formed in 1927 by merging the Pittsburgh Post and the Pittsburgh Gazette Times.
  2. (historical) A long-running weekly community newspaper based in Boston, originally founded as an Italian-language publication to serve immigrants.

Noun

Post-Gazette (plural Post-Gazettes)

  1. A newspaper.
    • The Gazettes came out in those days on Mondays and Thursdays. This paper, said to be printed by authority, is dated, Whitehall, October 26, which was Tuesday. It is printed but on one side, and the French king’s proclamation is in Italic, in order to render it the more remarkable. The same tiling...1812, Campbell, John, 1708-1775, Lives of the British admirals : containing an accurate naval history from the earliest periods, page 252
    • The following is the description of our school, given in the Northern Post Gazette, of December the 25th, 1818, which I have translated from the Russian.1819, Unattributed, “Religious Intelligence.— Miscellaneous.”, in The London Christian instructor; or Congregational Magazine 1819-08: Vol 2 Iss 20, page 507

Forms of Post-Gazette

Proper noun
alternative formPost Gazette
Noun
pluralPost-Gazettes

Origin of Post-Gazette

From post + gazette.

Questions about Post-Gazette

What does Post-Gazette mean?
Post-Gazette means the largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, formed in 1927 by merging the Pittsburgh Post and the Pittsburgh Gazette Times.
What part of speech is Post-Gazette?
Post-Gazette can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Post-Gazette in the dictionary

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  2. post-furlough
  3. post-ganglionic
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  5. post-gasms
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  7. post-graduate
  8. post-Gregg
  9. post-grunge
  10. post-hardcore
  11. post-haste

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