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  • tour guide
    tour guide
    noun
    a professional who leads visitors or tourists around a particular site or on a longer trip through many sites, stopping at points of interest and providing commentary.
  • tour-guide
    tour-guide
    verb (used without object)
    to work as a tour guide.
Synonyms

tour guide

1 American  
[toor gahyd] / ˈtʊər ˌgaɪd /

noun

plural

tour guides
  1. a professional who leads visitors or tourists around a particular site or on a longer trip through many sites, stopping at points of interest and providing commentary.


tour-guide 2 American  
[toor gahyd] / ˈtʊər ˌgaɪd /

verb (used without object)

tour-guided, tour-guiding, tour-guided, tour-guiding
  1. to work as a tour guide.


verb (used with object)

  1. to provide a tour guide for (an attraction, activity, etc.).

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Example Sentences

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Tour guide Eckart Demasius saw and photographed the solid-brown calf during a game drive on the roughly 90,000-acre reserve, according to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation.

From National Geographic • Sep. 12, 2023

Tour guide Kwesi Blankson told reporters that the captives would sing songs and pray to the gods as they looked through the holes in the dungeon’s ceiling.

From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2023

Tour guide Manuel Gomez, 49, who supports a wife and two children, said he hadn’t yet come up with another plan to make money.

From Washington Times • Mar. 17, 2020

Tour guide Hayden Inman was identified as among the dead by his brother on Facebook.

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2019

It would look a bit odd and raise remarks if the men saw me showing you round and doing the Cook's Tour guide business.

From Action Front by Cable, Boyd