guide

• enPR: gīd, 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, or to lead them through dangerous terrain.

   Synonym: guider

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

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 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.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 75:

     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.

7. (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.

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.
   • c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon,  […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     And that you'd guide me to your Soueraignes Court,

   • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:

     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.

2. To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
3. To exert control or influence over someone or something.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 112:5:

     A good man sheweth fauour and lendeth: he will guide his affaires with discretion.

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

• guidee
• guider
• guiding
• guiding light
• guiding star

• 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 English guide.

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)

• guideline

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.

• IPA^(key): /ɡid/

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• Homophone: guides
• Rhymes: -id

guide m (plural guides)

1. guide person
2. guidebook, or set itinerary

• chien guide d’aveugle
• guide de conversation
• mener la vie à grandes guides

• guider

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

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

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

• digue

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

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 guide/guid)

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: 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

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡuðʲe]

guide f (genitive guide, nominative plural guidi)

1. verbal noun of guidid
2. prayer
   • c. 808, Félire Oengusso, Epilogue, line 421; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:

     In guide ro·ngád-sa, ní ar ulc fri doíni.

     The prayer that I have prayed, it is not for evil onto humanity.

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

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guide c

1. guide (person who guides)

   Synonym: vägledare

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

   Synonym: assistent