tour guide en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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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:
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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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| tourguide | alternative | lexicographic | |
| tour guides | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Hypernyms
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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)