“guides” is a form of
guide
/ɡaɪd/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms guides guiding guided guidest guidedst guideth
- noun Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain. “The guide led us around the museum and explained the exhibits.”
- noun A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
- noun A sign that guides people; guidepost.
- noun Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
- noun Synonym of legend, a key to symbols, abbreviations, and terms on a map, chart, etc.
- noun A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.
- noun A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.
- noun (printing, dated) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy being set.
- verb To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
- verb To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
- verb To exert control or influence over someone or something.
- verb To supervise the education or training of someone.
- verb (intransitive) To act as a guide.
- proper noun A village in Blackburn with Darwen borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7025).
- proper noun A county of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China.
- proper noun (historical) Synonym of Shangqiu.
Synonyms
guider xenagogue legend interpreter Shangqiu usher guidebook template templet scout pathfinder steer maneuver manoeuver manoeuvre direct point head channelize channelise lead take conduct guide on run draw pass
Etymology
c. 1325–75. From Middle English guide, from the Old French guide, from Old Occitan guida, from guidar, from Frankish *wītan (“to show the way, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to see, know; go, depart”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). Cognate with Old English wītan (“to see, take heed to, watch after, guard, keep”). Related also to English wit.
From Middle English guiden, from Old French guider, from Old Occitan guidar, from Frankish *wītan (“to show the way, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to see, know; go, depart”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”).
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 貴德 /贵德 (Guìdé).
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 歸德 /归德.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.
- verb To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train.
- noun A person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of interest to strangers; a conductor; also, that which guides; a guidebook.
- noun One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator.
Etymology [OE. guiden, gyden, F. guiaer, It. guidare; prob. of Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. ritan to watch over, give heed to, Icel. viti signal, AS. witan to know. The word prob. meant, to indicate, point to, and hence, to show the way. Cf. Wit, Guy a rope, Gye.]
Etymology [OE. giae, F. guide, It. guida. See Guide, v. t.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “guide”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details