guide

• IPA^(key): /ɡaɪd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪd

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.

guide (plural guides)

1. Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation.

   The guide led us around the museum and explained the exhibits.

   • Bible, Psalms xlviii. 14

     He will be our guide, even unto death.

2. A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
3. A sign that guides people; guidepost.
4. Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
5. A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.
   1. A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.
   2. A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.
   3. (printing, dated) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy being set.
6. (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
7. (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.

• → Korean: 가이드 (gaideu)
• → Japanese: ガイド (gaido)
• → Norwegian: guide
• → Swedish: guide

From Middle English guiden, from Old French guider, from Old Occitan 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”).

guide (third-person singular simple present guides, present participle guiding, simple past and past participle guided)

1. to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
   • Shakespeare

     Guide me to your sovereign's court.

2. to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
3. to exert control or influence over someone or something.
   • Bible, Psalms cxii. 5

     He will guide his affairs with discretion.

4. to supervise the education or training of someone.
5. (intransitive) to act as a guide.

• guide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “guide” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “guide” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "guide" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

• digue, iudge

From Old French guide, borrowed from Old Occitan guida, from the verb guidar, ultimately of Germanic origin, possibly through Medieval Latin; cf. Frankish *wītan. Supplanted the older Old French guier, of the same origin. Compare Italian guida, Spanish guía. See guider for more information.

• IPA^(key): /ɡid/

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• Rhymes: -id

guide m (plural guides)

1. guide person
2. guidebook, or set itinerary.

• guider

• → Danish: guide
• → Romanian: ghid
• → Russian: гид (gid)

• "guide" in the WordReference Dictionnaire Français-Anglais, WordReference.com LLC, 2006.

• “guide” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• digue

• Rhymes: -ide

guide f

1. plural of guida

Borrowed from English guide

guide m (definite singular guiden, indefinite plural guider, definite plural guidene)

1. a guide (person who guides tourists)
2. a guide (handbook, e.g. for tourists)

• gaid

guide (imperative guid, present tense guider, passive guides, simple past and past participle guida or guidet, present participle guidende)

1. to guide (usually tourists)

• gaide

• “guide” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “guide_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “guide_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Borrowed from English guide

guide m (definite singular guiden, indefinite plural guidar, definite plural guidane)

1. a guide (person who guides tourists)
2. a guide (handbook, e.g. for tourists)

• gaid

guide (present tense guidar, past tense guida, past participle guida, passive infinitive guidast, present participle guidande, imperative guid/guide)

1. to guide (usually tourists)

• gaide
• guida

• “guide” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

guide m or f

1. a guide (person who guides)

• French: guide
  • → Danish: guide
  • → Romanian: ghid
  • → Russian: gid (gid)
• Norman: dgide
• → Middle English: giden, gide
  • Scots: guide
  • English: guide
    • → Korean: 가이드 (gaideu)
    • → Japanese: ガイド (gaido)
    • → Norwegian: guide
    • → Swedish: guide

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuðʲe/

guide f (genitive guide, nominative plural guidi)

1. verbal noun of guidid
2. prayer

• Irish: guí

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guide c

1. guide (person who guides)
2. (computing) wizard (program or script used to simplify complex operations)

• (guide): vägledare
• (computer program): assistent