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  • girl guide
    girl guide
    noun
    a member of a British organization of girls Girl Guides founded in England by Lord Robert S. S. Baden-Powell and his sister Lady Agnes as a sister organization of the Girl Scouts.
  • Girl Guide
    Girl Guide
    noun
    See Guide

girl guide

American  

noun

  1. (sometimes initial capital letters) a member of a British organization of girls Girl Guides founded in England by Lord Robert S. S. Baden-Powell and his sister Lady Agnes as a sister organization of the Girl Scouts.


Girl Guide British  

noun

  1. See Guide

"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

Etymology

Origin of girl guide

First recorded in 1905–10


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Elsewhere they reveal a wonderful selection of found ephemera including a 1968 "good girl guide".

From The Guardian ● Jan. 15, 2011

So after high school she went to work as a girl guide in a Bethlehem Steel plant, and then it was on to New York and the Plaza Five modeling agency.

From Time Magazine Archive

Them’s his long suit,” declared the girl guide.

From Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold by Alice B. Emerson

Although 119 Ruth continued to keep Min, the girl guide, to the fore, she saw that the girl’s father was going to be vastly pleased by being made of some account.

From Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold by Alice B. Emerson

But Ruth Fielding suddenly realized what the girl guide meant.

From Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold by Alice B. Emerson

Navigating puberty, suggests The Girl Guide, is about learning to know your body, to hold ambition, to love yourself, and to love the other amazing women you get to share your world with.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2019

She does not want to give details of the attack, but describes how she fought back - putting into practice some long-forgotten Girl Guide training.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2018

We camped in a Girl Guide tent and brought beans, bread, butter, toilet paper and Coca-Cola.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2010

His largest bequest was to the Girl Guide and Scouting Association of Dumfriesshire in "celebration of the life" of his late wife Sheena Forester-Smith.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2010

Some of them are old clippings, and show Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose, in Girl Guide uniforms, making radio and other speeches during the Blitz.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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