travel guiden.
/ˈtravl ɡʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈtræv(ə)l ˌɡaɪd/ 1. A book, website, etc., that provides travellers or tourists with information about places of interest, accommodation, restaurants, etc. Cf. guidebook n.Quot. 1881 might instead show sense 2.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > that which guides or leads > guidebook
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1881 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Oct. 11/2 We enjoy an entire immunity from the vulgarity of travel. No travel guides, no show spots, no fashionable hotels, no Cook's tourists here!
1906 Racine (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 10 July 4/4 For those who want to go to Europe, it is not exactly necessary to be furnished with a Baedecker [sic] travel guide.
1977 Washington Post 16 Oct. 9/1 Here is our travel guide for in-city trips and rural glimpses.
2017 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 13 Oct. 23 The Black Swan in Olstead..has now received such glowing reviews that online travel guide TripAdvisor declared it to be the finest restaurant on the planet.
2. A person employed as a guide for travellers or tourists; esp. one who arranges or conducts tours of places of interest. Cf. tour guide at tour n. Compounds.For possible earlier evidence of this sense, see note at sense 1.
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1934 Times 15 Aug. (Appointments section) 3/3 Travel Guide (aged 69): active and competent: five years' references for work in London.
2014 A. N. Helbig Hip Hop Ukraine p. xiii I was working as a travel guide for my mother's tour groups.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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