Guide

Noun

 * 1) Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation.
 * 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.
 * 6)  A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
 * 7)  A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.

Verb

 * 1) to serve as a guide for someone or something.
 * 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)  to act as a guide.

Verbs for Guide
commit to—; employ—; exhort—; provide—; —climbs; —conducts; —controls; — courses; —directs; —explains; —indicates; —influences; —leads; —lectures; —manages; —pilots; —plans; —points out; — rambles; —supervises; —tests; —trains.

Adverbs for Guide
fearlessly; intelligently; insensibly; tactfully; genially; altruistically; competently; intrepidly.

Synonyms for Guide
lead, direct, convey, shepherd, control, conduct, regulate, persuade, induce, order, dispose, command, contrive, manage, sway, train, educate, influence.

Antonyms for Guide
mislead, release, abandon, ignore, disregard, quit, misguide, neglect.

Related terms

 * Girl Guide
 * guide dog
 * guidance
 * guidebook
 * guideline
 * guidepost
 * tour guide
 * mountain guide
 * user guide
 * user's guide
 * career guide
 * style guide

Thesaurus
Baedeker, Dutch uncle, Gyropilot, Masan, Polonius, abecedarian, accompany, admonisher, advise, adviser, advisor, advocate, air hole, allegorist, ancestor, ancestral spirits, angel, annotator, announcer, antecedent, apparition, appearance, armhole, arrow, astral, astral spirit, attend, attendant godling, automatic pilot, avant-garde, backseat driver, banshee, be the bellwether, beacon, bell cow, bellwether, blaze, blaze the trail, blowhole, boatheader, boatsteerer, break the trail, brief, broaden the mind, buccinator, bullet-hole, bunghole, bushwhacker, buttinsky, call the shots, catechize, certified teacher, chaperon, chart a course, chute, cicerone, civilize, clarifier, coach, commentator, compass needle, compendium, cond, conduct, conductor, confer, confidant, conn, consult with, consultant, contrive, control, convoy, counsel, counselor, courier, cowherd, coxswain, cringle, criterion, critic, cryptanalyst, cryptographer, cryptologist, daemon, deadeye, dean, decide, decoder, definer, demon, demonstrate, demonstrator, demythologizer, departed spirit, determine, diaskeuast, direct, direction, direction post, director, disembodied spirit, dispose, docent, doctor, dominie, don, doyen, dragoman, drive, drover, duppy, dybbuk, eaves trough, edify, editor, educate, educationist, educator, eidolon, emendator, emender, enchiridion, engineer, enlighten, escort, esquire, euhemerist, example, exegesist, exegete, exegetist, exemplar, expert, explainer, explicator, explorer, exponent, expositor, expounder, eye, eyelet, fairy godmother, familiar, familiar spirit, fellow, finger post, fist, forebear, foregoer, forerun, forerunner, form, front runner, frontiersman, fugleman, gasket, genius, genius domus, genius loci, get ahead of, get before, ghost, give instruction, give lessons in, go before, go-between, goatherd, good angel, good genius, govern, grateful dead, grommet, ground, groundbreaker, guard, guardian, guardian angel, guardian spirit, guideboard, guidebook, guidepost, guider, guiding light, guru, gutter, hand, handbook, handle, hant, harbinger, haunt, have the conn, have the start, head, head the line, helm, helmsman, herald, herd, herdsman, hermeneut, hold the reins, hour hand, household gods, ideal, idolum, illumine, immateriality, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, index, index finger, influence, inform, innovator, inspiration, instruct, instructor, interpreter, introduce, invisible helper, keyhole, kibitz, kibitzer, knothole, landmark, lap, lares and penates, lares compitales, lares familiaris, lares permarini, lares praestites, lares viales, larva, lead, lead runner, lead the dance, lead the way, leader, lemures, lexicographer, light, light the way, lodestar, loop, loophole, lubber line, maestro, manage, manes, maneuver, manhole, manual, marker, marshal, master, materialization, meddle, meddler, melamed, mentor, mercury, messenger, metaphrast, milepost, ministering angel, minute hand, model, monitor, mousehole, mullah, navigate, navigator, needle, nestor, numen, oneirocritic, oni, open the eyes, operate, order, orienter, outstrip, oversee, pace, pandit, paraphrast, pathfinder, pedagogist, pedagogue, peephole, penates, penstock, pentrough, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, pigeonhole, pilot, pinhole, pioneer, placket, placket hole, point, pointer, poltergeist, porthole, precede, precedent, preceptist, preceptor, precursor, predecessor, prescribe, presence, professor, propose, punch-hole, pundit, rabbi, recommend, reeducate, regulate, revenant, river pilot, route, rule, run, scholiast, school, schoolkeeper, schoolmaster, schoolteacher, scout, see, set right, set the pace, shade, shadow, shape, shape a course, sharpen the wits, shepherd, shoot, show, show how, show the way, shrouded spirit, sign, signal, signboard, signpost, spearhead, special providence, specter, spectral ghost, spiracle, spirit, spook, sprite, squire, stand first, standard, starets, steer, steerer, steersman, stormy petrel, submit, suggest, superintend, supervise, sway, take out, take the helm, take the lead, tap, teach, teach a lesson, teach the rudiments, teacher, textual critic, theophany, totem, tour director, tour guide, trailblazer, trailbreaker, train, translator, trough, tutelar god, tutelary, tutor, unsubstantiality, usher, usher in, vade mecum, vanguard, vaunt-courier, vent, venthole, vision, voortrekker, wait on, walking dead man, wandering soul, wear the pants, wraith, zombie

Etymology
Originated 1325–75 from the verb giden: or noun gide:, from the  verb guider: or noun guide:, from  guida:, from guidar:, from, from  undefined:. Akin to witan:; see.

Noun

 * Arabic: (murshid)
 * Basque: gida
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: guide
 * Dutch: gids
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hebrew: מורה–דרך
 * Hungarian:, ,  túravezető
 * Japanese: 案内人 (あんないにん, annainin),
 * Latvian:, pavadonis


 * Lithuanian: gidas, vadovas, vedlys
 * Macedonian: водич
 * Maltese: gwida
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, гид,  экскурсовод
 * Scottish Gaelic: neach-iùil
 * Slovene:, vodnik
 * Spanish: líder (generic),  (employed)
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Basque: gida
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: guide, vejledning
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Hungarian: útmutató
 * Japanese: 手引き (てびき, tebiki), ガイドブック
 * Latvian: ceļvedis
 * Lithuanian: vadovas
 * Macedonian: водич, упатство


 * Maltese: ktieb gwida
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: руководство, путеводитель
 * Scottish Gaelic: leabhar-iùil
 * Slovene: vodnik,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: geidian


 * Danish: vejviser
 * Finnish:
 * Japanese: 指標 (しひょう, shihyō)
 * Macedonian: патоказ
 * Maltese:


 * Polish:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: smerokaz
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Swahili:


 * Finnish: ,
 * Macedonian: водилка


 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili:


 * Swahili:


 * Swahili:


 * : guida
 * : വഴികാട്ടി (vazhikaatti)

Verb

 * Arabic:,  هدى
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Japanese: 案内する (あんないする, annai-suru)
 * Macedonian:, упатува
 * Maltese: tigwida, turi
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: быть проводником,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Ukrainian: проводити, вести (когось), бути (для/у/в когось) провідником


 * Japanese: 誘導する (ゆうどうする, yūdō-suru)
 * Macedonian: управува
 * Portuguese:


 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * Japanese: 指導する (しどうする, shidō-suru)


 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * : guidar

Noun

 * 1) a  (person who guides)

Noun

 * 1) guide person
 * 2) guidebook, or set itinerary.

Anagrams

 * digue

Noun
guide