guide
/ɡaɪd/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.75 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
Example Sentences
- "The guide led us around the museum and explained the exhibits."
- "He will be our guide, even unto death."
- "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."
- "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."
- "And that you'd guide me to your Soueraignes Court,"
- "Kolyat: I brought a prayer book, Commander. Would you care to join me? Kolyat: Kalahira, this one's heart is pure, but beset by wickedness and contention. Shepard: Guide this one to where the traveler never tires, the lover never leaves, the hungry never starve. Shepard: Guide this one, Kalahira, and she will be a companion to you as she was to me."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der. Proto-Germanic *wītaną Frankish *wītanbor. Old Occitan guidar Old Occitan guidabor. Old French guidebor. Middle English guide English guide 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.
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Inflected Forms
guides (plural)
guides (present, singular)
guiding (participle, present)
guided (participle, past)
guided (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
guided (first person, past)
guidest (archaic, present)
guided (past, second person)
guidedst (archaic, past)
guideth (archaic, present)