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guidebook

American  
[gahyd-book] / ˈgaɪdˌbʊk /

noun

  • guidebooks
    plural
  1. a book of directions, advice, and information, especially for travelers or tourists.


guidebook British  
/ ˈɡaɪdˌbʊk /

noun

  1. Also called: guide.  a handbook with information for visitors to a place, as a historic building, museum, or foreign country

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of guidebook

First recorded in 1805–15; guide + book

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The genesis of this self-published guidebook occurred when the pair realized they were not receiving a portion of a royalty stream they were owed.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

Asked for comment by AFP, the city's Department of Education said their regulations are only the first step, promising a more comprehensive guidebook later this year.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

The museum does provide QR codes linking to the Bloomberg Connects museum guide app, and a guidebook.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

A guidebook to the Coast to Coast was published by him in the early 1970s in his own handwriting and sketches.

From BBC Mar. 25, 2026

He took out his guidebook and began flipping through pages.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

Beyond the merry-go-round and before the Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Ian Bowen does business in a snug kiosk overstuffed with souvenirs, guidebooks and replica highway signs.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2026

If we tear ourselves away, we can study those postcards, as well as guidebooks and a map noting places that Monet painted, stayed in and visited.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 11, 2025

Mr. Frommer was selling 300,000 copies of his guide every year by the mid-1960s; by some contemporary accounts, they represented a quarter to a third of all European guidebooks sold in the United States.

From New York Times Nov. 18, 2024

The pollutant emissions from the flares were estimated from the flared gas volumes reported by the World Bank Gas Flaring Tracker and emission factors available in peer-reviewed publications and reference emission inventories guidebooks.

From BBC Nov. 27, 2023

Readers of Rand, McNally’s exposition guidebooks eventually found themselves thrilling to the vision of millions of fur-hatted men squeezed onto the building’s thirty-two-acre floor.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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