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tour guide en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. One who provides assistance and information to people on organised tours.
    • Before he came to Stanford, Thrun had worked on robotic tour guides for museums in Germany, an interactive humanoid robot that worked in a nursing home near Pittsburgh, and a system of robots that could search out mines. 2009, P[eter] W[arren] Singer, “Robotic Gods: Our Machine Creators”, in Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Twenty-first Century, New York, N.Y.: The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 135:
    • Government licensed tour guides would take the groups through the site. 2016, David M. Mannes, “Visoko, Bosnia-Herzegovina/Pyramid of the Sun”, in The Tunguska Encounter: A Damien Wynter Majic-12 Adventure, Solstice Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 8, page 97:
  2. Synonym of travel guide.
    • Using a Tour Guide / Another handy feature you can try when familiarizing yourself with Internet content are the guides provided by Netscape. 1999, Shelley O’Hara, “Navigating Like a Pro: Netscape Navigator”, in Surf the Net the Lazy Way (Macmillan Lifestyle Guides; The Lazy Way), New York, N.Y.: Alpha Books, →ISBN, part 2 (Browsing Tips), page 26:
    • Michelle lounged in the passenger seat reading a tour guide she’d picked up in the hotel confectionary story before they’d checked out. 2016, David M. Mannes, “Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina”, in The Tunguska Encounter: A Damien Wynter Majic-12 Adventure, Solstice Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 15, page 160:
    • I opened my Bible at the first chapter of the Gospel according to St Mark and as I read, it was as if I were reading a tour guide of my own home district. 1998, John Knape, “Pilgrimage to the Holy Land – 1958”, in Satanic Mills to Galilee, Bishop Auckland, Durham: The Pentland Press Limited, →ISBN, page 171:
    • You can learn about the places to visit by seeing a tour presentation or by reading a tour guide. A good guide or presentation will have both pictures and text. Computer software can be used to make tour guides and presentations. 2001, “Unit 4: Publishing and Presenting”, in Teacher’s Answer, editor, Computer Literacy (Pacemaker), Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Globe Fearon, →ISBN, page 241:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
tourguide alternative lexicographic
tour guides Number=Plur lexicographic

Hypernyms

person · guide

Relateds

tour group

Synonyms

tourist guide · touristic guide · travel guide

Translations (69)

gl guía turístico (guide on organised tours) · ja 案内人 (guide on organised tours) · ru экскурсово́д (guide on organised tours) · ko 안내인 (guide on organised tours) · nl reisleider (guide on organised tours) · fi retkiopas (guide on organised tours) · ru проводни́ца (guide on organised tours) · sh во̀дӣч (guide on organised tours) · et giid (guide on organised tours) · ar مُرْشِد سِيَاحِيّ (guide on organised tours) · eo ĉiĉerono (guide on organised tours) · be гід (guide on organised tours) · et reisijuht (guide on organised tours) · ro ghid turistic (guide on organised tours) · ka გიდი (guide on organised tours) · sl vodnik (guide on organised tours) · de Fremdenführer (guide on organised tours) · hu idegenvezető (guide on organised tours) · uk екскурсово́д (guide on organised tours) · pt guia turístico (guide on organised tours) · ru проводни́к (guide on organised tours) · tr rehber (guide on organised tours) · cs průvodkyně (guide on organised tours) · de Fremdenführerin (guide on organised tours) · de Reiseleiter (guide on organised tours) · it guida turistica (guide on organised tours) · nl reisgids (guide on organised tours) · sl vodič (guide on organised tours) · nl reisleidster (guide on organised tours) · vi người hướng đạo (guide on organised tours) · th มัคคุเทศก์ (guide on organised tours) · ko 관광 가이드 (guide on organised tours) · uk провідни́к (guide on organised tours) · be правадні́ца (guide on organised tours) · cmn 導遊 /导游 or 導游 /导游 (guide on organised tours) · be правадні́к (guide on organised tours) · nl gids (guide on organised tours) · fr guide touristique (guide on organised tours) · id pramuwisata (guide on organised tours) · uk провідни́ця (guide on organised tours) · pl przewodnik (guide on organised tours) · fr guide culturel (guide on organised tours) · sk sprievodca (guide on organised tours) · id pemandu wisata (guide on organised tours) · ja ツアーガイド (guide on organised tours) · eo gvidisto (guide on organised tours) · ko 가이드 (guide on organised tours) · es guía turístico (guide on organised tours) · sk sprievodkyňa (guide on organised tours) · ja ガイド (guide on organised tours) · cs průvodce (guide on organised tours) · pl przewodniczka (guide on organised tours) · fr guide (guide on organised tours) · fi opas (guide on organised tours) · ka ექსკურსიამძღოლი (guide on organised tours) · sh vòdīč (guide on organised tours) · de Reiseführer (guide on organised tours) · ru гид (guide on organised tours) · jv pramuwisata (guide on organised tours) · ar مُرْشِد (guide on organised tours) · be экскурсаво́д (guide on organised tours) · uk гід (guide on organised tours) · mk водич (guide on organised tours) · fr guide-conférencier (guide on organised tours) · ro ghid (guide on organised tours) · de Reiseleiterin (guide on organised tours) · bg вода́ч (guide on organised tours) · fi matkaopas (guide on organised tours) · ko 여행 가이드 (guide on organised tours)

wikidata: Q1039099