guide

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See also: guidé, Guide, guìdé, and Guìdé

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Pronunciation

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  • enPR: gīd, IPA(key): /ɡaɪd/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪd

Etymology 1

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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.

Noun

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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.
  3. A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
  5. A sign that guides people; guidepost.
  6. Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
  7. Synonym of legend, a key to symbols, abbreviations, and terms on a map, chart, etc.
  8. 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.
  9. (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.
  10. (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.
Synonyms
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  • (person who leads and explains): interpreter (uncommon)
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • → Korean: 가이드 (gaideu)
  • → Japanese: ガイド (gaido)
  • → Norwegian: guide
  • → Swedish: guide
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Etymology 2

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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”).

Verb

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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.
  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. (intransitive) To act as a guide.
Conjugation
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Conjugation of guide
infinitive (to) guide
present tense past tense
1st-person singular guide guided
2nd-person singular guide, guidest† guided, guidedst†
3rd-person singular guides, guideth† guided
plural guide
subjunctive guide guided
imperative guide —
participles guiding guided

†Archaic or obsolete.

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References

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Anagrams

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Chinese

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Etymology

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From English guide.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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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)

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French

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Etymology

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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.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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guide m (plural guides)

  1. guide person
  2. guidebook, or set itinerary

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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guide f

  1. plural of guida

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English guide.

Noun

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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)

Alternative forms

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Verb

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guide (imperative guid, present tense guider, passive guides, simple past and past participle guida or guidet, present participle guidende)

  1. to guide (usually tourists)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English guide.

Noun

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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)

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Verb

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guide (present tense guidar, past tense guida, past participle guida, passive infinitive guidast, present participle guidande, imperative guide/guid)

  1. to guide (usually tourists)

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Old French

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Noun

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guide m or f

  1. a guide (person who guides)

Descendants

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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guide f (genitive guide, nominative plural guidi)

  1. verbal noun of guidid
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 132a10
      ci a{s}⟨r⟩id·roga⟨r⟩t dímsa do guidi-siu, a Dǽ
      although he has forbidden me to pray to you, O God
  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.

Declension

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Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative guideL guidiL guidi
Vocative guideL guidiL guidi
Accusative guidiN guidiL guidi
Genitive guide guideL guideN
Dative guidiL guidib guidib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

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Descendants

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

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
guide guide
pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/ 		nguide
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Swedish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

Declension

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Declension of guide
nominative genitive
singular indefinite guide guides
definite guiden guidens
plural indefinite guider guiders
definite guiderna guidernas
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