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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The 79-year-old American has lived in Japan for nearly 40 years, working as a tour guide.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
“Hopefully they respect the boundaries that we have,” said Mark Anthony Castillo, a 34-year-old tour guide in Basco, the Batanes’ capital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
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
Meanwhile, in Hulu’s postapocalyptic series, Woodley played Annie, a former tour guide at Graceland and survivor of the Day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Suddenly Owen’s tour guide script came back to him, and he heard his own words: Cubs are super cute, but you do not want to come between a cub and its mother.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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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