guidebook
[gahyd-boo k]
- a book of directions, advice, and information, especially for travelers or tourists.
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Origin of guidebook
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Examples from the Web for guidebook
Contemporary Examples
Nowadays people prepare for a trip by reading little more than a few pages of a guidebook.
What is a young Finn or Spaniard visiting Israel/Palestine, this guidebook in hand, to make of this?
A guidebook I read aptly called it “a conveyer belt of black hair.”
Bradt Travel is bringing out the first guidebook dedicated solely to Sierra Leone.
Historical Examples
She had a way of reading the guidebook, too, that made Isobel see the things.
HighacresJane Abbott
Do they force their mixture of guidebook and water on each other?
Round the Wonderful WorldG. E. Mitton
His philosophy was not a guidebook or map, but a rough and often miry trail.
The New Stone Age in Northern EuropeJohn M. Tyler
They were interested in seeing only such things as had been recommended by the guidebook.
Europe RevisedIrvin S. Cobb
When a guidebook tries to be humorous it only succeeds in being foolish.
Europe RevisedIrvin S. Cobb
guidebook
- a handbook with information for visitors to a place, as a historic building, museum, or foreign countryAlso called: guide
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