Definition of 'guidebook'
Word forms: plural guidebooks
1. countable noun B1+
2. countable noun B1+
A guidebook is a book that gives you information or instructions to help you do or understand something.
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Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
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guidebook in American English
(ˈɡaidˌbuk)
noun
a book of directions, advice, and information, esp. for travelers or tourists
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Derived forms
guidebookish or guidebookyadjective
Word origin
[1805–15; guide + book]Examples of 'guidebook' in a sentenceguidebook
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British English: guidebook /ˈɡaɪdˌbʊk/ NOUN
A guidebook is a book that gives tourists information about a town, area, or country.
- American English: guidebook /ˈgaɪdbʊk/
- Arabic: دَليل سِياحِيّ
- Brazilian Portuguese: guia de viagem
- Chinese: 指南
- Croatian: vodič
- Czech: průvodce knížka
- Danish: guide
- Dutch: handleiding
- European Spanish: guía
- Finnish: opaskirja
- French: guide livre
- German: Reiseführer Buch
- Greek: τουριστικός οδηγός
- Italian: guida libro
- Japanese: ガイドブック
- Korean: 여행 안내서
- Norwegian: reisehåndbok
- Polish: przewodnik książka
- European Portuguese: guia de viagem
- Romanian: ghid turistic
- Russian: путеводитель
- Latin American Spanish: guía manual de instrucciones
- Swedish: resehandbok
- Thai: หนังสือนำเที่ยว, คู่มือท่องเที่ยว
- Turkish: rehber kılavuz
- Ukrainian: путівник
- Vietnamese: sách hướng dẫn
