Noun: guide
| Singular | guide |
| Plural | guides |
Sample Sentences
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The guide led us around the museum and explained the exhibits.
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He will be our guide, even unto death. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms xlviii:14:]
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Some tourists aggravate their position by hiring a guide. Every city of any historic importance breeds a class of mortals that are born guides; they have come to belong to the "staffage" of picturesque surroundings; and in this respect Prague is happily yet unspoilt. [1923, Bernard Granville Baker, From a Terrace in Prague:]
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The familiars of the magicians, on the other hand, were not in all cases evil, and often may have approximated the "guides" with whom present-day spiritualists are well acquainted. [1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 75:]
Nouns inflected like guide
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *wītaną
4. Frankish *wītanbor.
5. Old Occitan guidar
6. Old Occitan guidabor.
7. Old French guidebor.
8. Middle English guide
9. English guide
10. 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”). Cognate with Old English wītan (“to see, take heed to, watch after, guard, keep”). Related also to English wit. See: Middle English Nouns '
guide', Old English Nouns '
wītan', English Nouns '
wit'.
Verbs referencing "guide"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
guide, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
guide, Swedish Nouns
guide.