Words / A2

GYD/ɡaɪd/

A guide is a person who shows visitors around: a tour guide, a museum guide. Guide is also a book or booklet: a travel guide, a guide to the city. The verb is to guide someone through a place. Guidance is uncountable advice, not a person. Do not say “a guidance” for the person who leads the group.

Meaning

A person who shows people around a place.

Examples

• “The guide showed us around the old city.”
• “Our guide spoke three languages.”
• “This guidebook is a useful guide to local food.”

Good to know

a tour / museum guide. a guide to + place. Advice (uncountable): guidance.

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