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.
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tour guide
1 American
[toor gahyd]
/ ˈtʊər ˌgaɪd /
noun
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tour guides
plural
tour-guide
2
American
[toor gahyd]
/ ˈtʊər ˌgaɪd /
verb (used without object)
tour-guided,
tour-guiding,
tour-guided,
tour-guiding
verb (used with object)
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Later, a tour guide brings them through Independence Hall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Purja, who served with Britain's Brigade of Gurkhas before joining the Special Boat Squadron of the Royal Marines, broke multiple climbing records since becoming a full-time mountaineer and tour guide.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Kail hustles through the emotional beats like a tour guide muttering, “You know what happened here.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Historian and tour guide Alistair Heather said the commercialisation of the image in some parts of Glasgow had taken away its original meaning.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
He really likes talking like a tour guide.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
Many speeches and even tour-guide presentations start with a reminder that the soil on which the speaker and audience stand was once occupied only by indigenous people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
If you have an out-of-towner along, it’s almost your tour-guide duty to share this spectacle with them.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
Writing scripts for his tour-guide job sparked an interest in L.A. history, and drove Davis toward a synthesis of literary, historical and sociopolitical elements that would shape his writing career.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2022
In the book’s acknowledgments, she and Widmer, who taught for 16 years herself, thank “our many school-teacher and tour-guide friends, who have so generously offered to help us promote our history of New Orleans.”
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2022
The guides, mostly men in their 30s and 40s, wear professional-looking water shoes and windbreakers bearing the insignias of their tour-guide outfits.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2010
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