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tour group en · NOUN

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1. A group of tourists on a tour.
   • Hotel reservations in summer can be difficult because of tour groups blocking out rooms in the larger hotels. 2003, Scott Simpson, “First Steps”, in Krakow, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Thomas Cook Publishing, →ISBN, page 24, column 2:
   • Mark describes Jesus’ compassion from the point of view of sheep who are lost without their shepherd. Since few of us have any contact with sheep, we may get an inkling of the meaning by thinking of a tour group without a guide. The group wanders around without leadership and gets lost in the crowd of other groups. 2002, Mark G. Boyer, “Epiphany to the Baptism of the Lord”, in Waiting in Joyful Hope: Daily Reflections for Advent and Christmas 2002–2003, Year B, Collegeville, Minn.: The Liturgical Press, →ISBN, page 94:
   • A few days before Christmas, I spotted a lone tour group of about twenty-five Christians from Nigeria. Despite the long walk back to the checkpoint, they seemed thrilled to be in the birthplace of Jesus. 2001, Charles M. Sennott, “Jerusalem: The Via Dolorosa”, in The Body and the Blood: The Holy Land’s Christians at the Turn of a New Millennium: A Reporter’s Journey, New York, N.Y.: PublicAffairs, →ISBN, part IV (The Passion), page 404:

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tour guide