tour guide

• tourguide

tour guide (plural tour guides)

1. One who provides assistance and information to people on organised tours.

   Synonyms: tourist guide, touristic guide (non-native speakers' English)

   • 2009, P[eter] W[arren] Singer, “Robotic Gods: Our Machine Creators”, in Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Twenty-first Century, New York, N.Y.: The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 135:

     Before he came to Stanford, Thrun had worked on robotic tour guides for museums in Germany, an interactive humanoid robot that worked in a nursing home near Pittsburgh, and a system of robots that could search out mines.

   • 2016, David M. Mannes, “Visoko, Bosnia-Herzegovina/Pyramid of the Sun”, in The Tunguska Encounter: A Damien Wynter Majic-12 Adventure, Solstice Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 8, page 97:

     Government licensed tour guides would take the groups through the site.

2. Synonym of travel guide.
   • 1998, John Knape, “Pilgrimage to the Holy Land – 1958”, in Satanic Mills to Galilee, Bishop Auckland, Durham: The Pentland Press Limited, →ISBN, page 171:

     I opened my Bible at the first chapter of the Gospel according to St Mark and as I read, it was as if I were reading a tour guide of my own home district.

   • 1999, Shelley O’Hara, “Navigating Like a Pro: Netscape Navigator”, in Surf the Net the Lazy Way (Macmillan Lifestyle Guides; The Lazy Way), New York, N.Y.: Alpha Books, →ISBN, part 2 (Browsing Tips), page 26:

     Using a Tour Guide / Another handy feature you can try when familiarizing yourself with Internet content are the guides provided by Netscape.

   • 2001, “Unit 4: Publishing and Presenting”, in Teacher’s Answer, editor, Computer Literacy (Pacemaker), Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Globe Fearon, →ISBN, page 241:

     You can learn about the places to visit by seeing a tour presentation or by reading a tour guide. A good guide or presentation will have both pictures and text. Computer software can be used to make tour guides and presentations.

   • 2016, David M. Mannes, “Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina”, in The Tunguska Encounter: A Damien Wynter Majic-12 Adventure, Solstice Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 15, page 160:

     Michelle lounged in the passenger seat reading a tour guide she’d picked up in the hotel confectionary story before they’d checked out.