Travel / A2

GYDB-uk/ˈɡaɪdbʊk/

A guidebook helps visitors: a city guidebook, according to the guidebook, a hiking guidebook. Guide can be a person or a short booklet. Map shows streets; a guidebook adds tips on hostels and galleries. Handbook is more for rules (a student handbook). Do not write guard book.

Meaning

A book with information for visitors to a place.

Examples

• “The guidebook recommended a cheap hostel.”
• “The guidebook listed a half-price museum day.”
• “I packed a thin guidebook instead of a heavy atlas.”

Good to know

a city/hiking guidebook. Person: a guide. Rules at school: handbook. Streets: map.

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