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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Piyarat Na Songkhla, 43, tour guide in Phuket, tells the BBC that he has seen Nene Royal perform since she was young.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Later, a tour guide brings them through Independence Hall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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
For Dr Agata Chrzanowksa, an art historian and tour guide in Florence, the hills and mountains north of the city are "a very good spot to runaway from the heat" for those driving.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Ms. Esposito was all the way across the lawn, chatting with the tour guide.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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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