guide

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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: gīd, IPA^(key): /ɡaɪd/
• Rhymes: -aɪd

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

guide (plural guides)

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

   Synonyms: guider, (obsolete, rare) xenagogue
3. A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
5. A sign that guides people; guidepost.
6. Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
7. Synonym of legend, a key to symbols, abbreviations, and terms on a map, chart, etc.
8. 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.
9. (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
10. (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.

Synonyms

• (person who leads and explains): interpreter (uncommon)

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Etymology 2

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”).

Verb

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.
2. To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
3. To exert control or influence over someone or something.
4. To supervise the education or training of someone.
5. (intransitive) To act as a guide.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

References

• 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.

Anagrams

• digue, iudge

Chinese

Etymology

From English guide.

Pronunciation

Verb

guide

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to guide

   guide住佢做嘢 [Cantonese]  ―  gaai¹ zyu⁶ keoi⁵ zou⁶ je⁵ [Jyutping]  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

See also

• guideline

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡid/
• Homophone: guides
• Rhymes: -id

Noun

guide m (plural guides)

1. guide person
2. guidebook, or set itinerary

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• → Chadian Arabic: قيد (gīd)
• → Danish: guide
• → Romanian: ghid
• → Russian: гид (gid)

References

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

Further reading

• “guide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• digue

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwi.de/
• Rhymes: -ide
• Hyphenation: guì‧de

Noun

guide f

1. plural of guida

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English guide.

Noun

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)

Alternative forms

• gaid

Verb

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

1. to guide (usually tourists)

Alternative forms

• gaide

References

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English guide.

Noun

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)

Alternative forms

• gaid

Verb

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

1. to guide (usually tourists)

Alternative forms

• gaide, guida

References

• “guide” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Noun

guide m or f

1. a guide (person who guides)

Descendants

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

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gʷedyā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰedʰ-yeh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡuðʲe]

Noun

guide f (genitive guide, nominative plural guidi)

1. verbal noun of guidid
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 132^a10

2. prayer

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Irish: guí
• Manx: gwee (“curse, imprecation”)
• Scottish Gaelic: guidhe

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “guide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

guide c

1. guide (person who guides)

   Synonym: vägledare

2. (computing) wizard (program or script used to simplify complex operations)

   Synonym: assistent

Declension