noun

guide

guide, manual, handbook

The tour guide showed us the city.

The tour guide showed us the city.

This is a good guide to local restaurants.

This is a good guide to local restaurants.

((a/the)) guide ((to sth.)) a book or person that gives information about (sth.) This is a good guide to local restaurants.

Synonyms: leader, manual, handbook

From Old French 'guider' (to show the way), from a Germanic source.

A 'guide' is someone or something that 'guides' you, whether it's a person or a book.

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