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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Purja, who served with Britain's Brigade of Gurkhas before joining the Special Boat Squadron of the Royal Marines, has broken multiple climbing records since becoming a full-time mountaineer and tour guide.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 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
A 58-year-old fitness instructor and tour guide with a whistle on a lanyard around her neck was making the trip with her first tour group since the beginning of the war in February.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
“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
I just remember acting like a tour guide, pointing out who was who and what was what on the block.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
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
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
It also frees the reader from the conventions of so much travel writing that rely on crafted novelty or tour-guide knowledge, replacing them with awe and sincerity.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2018
The village in Mx was really interesting... according to our tour-guide, the village was destroyed by a flood a while back and then rebuilt.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2018
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