guide
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.
Noun 4 meanings
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.
“The guide led us around the museum and explained the exhibits.”
A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
A sign that guides people; guidepost.
Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
Verb 4 meanings
To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
To exert control or influence over someone or something.
To supervise the education or training of someone.
Etymology
c. 1325–75. From Middle English guide, from the Old French guide, from Old Occitan guida, from guidar, from Frankish *wītan (“to show the way, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to see, know; go, depart”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”).
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GUIDE at a glance
GUIDE has 5 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (G 2 + U 1 + I 1 + D 2 + E 1) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,782 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with guide
All rhymesOne letter away
- GUISE6
- GLIDE7
- GUILE6
- GUIDS7
- GRIDE7
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