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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Jon Sandison, a high school history teacher and Shetland tour guide, said there were real concerns that Shetland could be attacked after Germany invaded Norway in 1940, during World War Two.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
A tour guide told me that every living actor besides Ewan McGregor has stopped by to approve of their likeness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Chiyuki Izumii, a tour guide for the Japan Guide Agency, feels tourist behaviour has got worse in recent years.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Ilana Butrimovitz, 39, a tour guide from Haifa, said this year is a significant improvement on last.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Relief flooded his chest that his tour guide didn’t seem to think the world was about to end—but even so, Thomas was getting tired of being hit by waves of panic.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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
In a tour-guide voice, LJ announced, “The acoustically interesting spaces of London!”
From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2018
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