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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.

tour guide

¹ American  

[toor gahyd] / ˈtʊər ˌgaɪd /

noun

tour guides plural

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.

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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.

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verb (used with object)

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

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• tour-guided
  adjective
• tour-guiding
  noun

Inflected Forms

noun

• tour guides
  plural

Example Sentences

“We have thousands of problems and that is the reason why they are in the street. What happened in Zvernec was just the tipping point”, 46-year-old tour guide Arben Kola told AFP.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

It was “traumatizing, seeing that stuff on display for so long and then seeing it come down,” said James Ranger, a veteran hotel tour guide and Mission Inn Foundation docent.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

Her North Korean tour guide said EVs were preferred because they were better for the environment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Beatles tour guide Jackie Spencer posted last summer on social media that the increase in visitors and tours to the narrow streets had led to residents erecting a metal chain to manage access.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

Which made him a natural as the tour guide on his family’s tundra buggy.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz