单词 | guidebook |
释义 | guidebookn. A book for the guidance of strangers or visitors in a district, town, building, etc., giving a description of the roads, places, or objects of interest to be found there. Also figurative. ΘΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > that which guides or leads > guidebook itinerarya1552 journal1552 xenagogy1576 itinerario1588 periegesis1591 journey-book1610 wayfaring-book1610 itinerarium1747 guide1759 ambulator1774 guidebook1814 tour-book1824 travel guide1881 tourist guide1924 1814 J. Mayne Jrnl. 25 Oct. (1909) x. 164 At Mr. Vasi's we purchased his guide-book, which is considered the best of its kind. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XI xxiii. 114 I..do not choose to encroach Upon the guide-book's privilege. 1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 72 That boundless plain of Languedoc, convicted of all guide-books of being arid, brown, and wholly uninteresting. a1846 B. R. Haydon Autobiogr. (1927) ix. 135 I mean my Life, if possible, to be a guide book to youth. 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter ii. 116 In any district of country not desecrated by the tourist's guide-books. 1935 T. S. Eliot Murder in Cathedral ii. 86 The sanctity shall not depart from it..though sightseers come with guide-books looking over it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1814 |
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