Gazette - Definition and Overview

A gazette is a newspaper. In the governments of Commonwealth countries a gazette is more specifically an official government paper that publishes all new laws and government decisions.

The word comes from gazet, a Venetian coin that was the cost of early many Italian newspapers and became a name for the papers themselves. This word was borrowed into English to also describe a newspaper. The word came to be used for an official government paper with the creation of the London Gazette in 1665.

Government gazettes

• London Gazette
• Belfast Gazette
• Iris Oifigiúil (originally the Dublin Gazette)
• Edinburgh Gazette
• Canada Gazette
• Australian Public Service Gazette
• Hong Kong Gazette