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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.
Synonyms

tour guide

1 American  
[toor gahyd] / ˈtʊər ˌgaɪd /

noun

plural

tour guides
  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.


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.


verb (used with object)

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

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Example Sentences

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Tour guide Eckart Demasius saw and photographed the solid-brown calf during a game drive on the roughly 90,000-acre reserve, according to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation.

From National Geographic • Sep. 12, 2023

Elsewhere in Kyiv, Chernobyl Tour guide coordinator Kateryna Aslamova watched the same scene unfold in shock.

From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2022

Tour guide Manuel Gomez, 49, who supports a wife and two children, said he hadn’t yet come up with another plan to make money.

From Washington Times • Mar. 17, 2020

Tour guide Andrea Hartman, 40, cast her ballot for Edwards in New Orleans.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2019

It would look a bit odd and raise remarks if the men saw me showing you round and doing the Cook's Tour guide business.

From Action Front by Cable, Boyd