guidebook

[gahyd-boo k]

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noun

a book of directions, advice, and information, especially for travelers or tourists.

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map, manual, enchiridion

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Origin of guidebook

First recorded in 1805–15; guide + book

Related formsguide·book·ish, guide·book·y, adjective

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Examples from the Web for guidebook

Nowadays people prepare for a trip by reading little more than a few pages of a guidebook.
The Big Idea: How Tourism Can Destroy the Places We Love|Elizabeth Becker|July 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
What is a young Finn or Spaniard visiting Israel/Palestine, this guidebook in hand, to make of this?
Temple Denial|Benny Morris|April 24, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Bradt Travel is bringing out the first guidebook dedicated solely to Sierra Leone.
Africa's Surprise Success Story|Tony Blair|April 29, 2009|DAILY BEAST
When I came back to the store, my brother-in-law gave to me the Guidebook for Marines.
Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

Strefford aimed his cigarette-end at a tourist on a puggaree who was gazing up from his guidebook at the palace.
The Glimpses of the Moon|Edith Wharton
The guidebook wasn't kidding when it said 'sudden and severe summer storms lash the bay.'
The Flying Stingaree|Harold Leland Goodwin
This information also came from the guidebook, and it surprised me.
The Car That Went Abroad|Albert Bigelow Paine
His geology he had got from a guidebook, out of which he treated us to various extracts, appending commentaries of his own.
A Little Tour In Ireland|S. Reynolds Hole

British Dictionary definitions for guidebook

guidebook

noun

a handbook with information for visitors to a place, as a historic building, museum, or foreign countryAlso called: guide

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guidebook

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guidebook

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