Guide

/ɡaɪd/ · noun

Meaning

Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain..

Definitions by Sense

1. Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain.
2. A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
3. A sign that guides people; guidepost.
4. Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
5. Synonym of legend, a key to symbols, abbreviations, and terms on a map, chart, etc.
6. A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.
7. (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
8. (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.

Example Sentences

The guide led us around the museum and explained the exhibits.

He will be our guide, even unto death.

Some tourists aggravate their position by hiring a guide. Every city of any historic importance breeds a class of mortals that are born guides; they have come to belong to the "staffage" of picturesque surroundings; and in this respect Prague is happily yet unspoilt.

The familiars of the magicians, on the other hand, were not in all cases evil, and often may have approximated the "guides" with whom present-day spiritualists are well acquainted.

And that you'd guide me to your Soueraignes Court,

Kolyat: I brought a prayer book, Commander. Would you care to join me? Kolyat: Kalahira, this one's heart is pure, but beset by wickedness and contention. Shepard: Guide this one to where the traveler never tires, the lover never leaves, the hungry never starve. Shepard: Guide this one, Kalahira, and she will be a companion to you as she was to me.

A good man sheweth fauour and lendeth: he will guide his affaires with discretion.

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