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guidebook
(gaɪdbʊk) also guide book
Word forms: plural guidebooks
1. countable noun
A guidebook is a book that gives tourists information about a town, area, or country.
2. countable noun
A guidebook is a book that gives you information or instructions to help you do or understand something.
...a guidebook to Italian art.
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guidebook in British English
(ˈɡaɪdˌbʊk)
noun
a handbook with information for visitors to a place, as a historic building, museum, or foreign country
Also called: guideguidebook in American English
(ˈgaɪdˌbʊk)
noun
1.
a book containing directions and information for tourists
2.
a handbook on some other subject
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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
- 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: หนังสือที่ให้ขัอมูลกับนักท่องเที่ยว
- Turkish: rehber kılavuz
- Ukrainian: путівник
- Vietnamese: sách hướng dẫn
Chinese translation of 'guidebook'
guidebook
(ˈɡaɪdbuk)
n (c)
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旅游(遊)指南
(lǚyóu zhǐnán) (本, běn)
1 (noun)
Definition
a book which gives tourist information on a place
The guidebook says this is the place where all the Hollywood Westerns were made.
Synonyms
directory
guide
These restaurants are all highly rated in the guide.
street map
2 (noun)
They published a series of guidebooks to American politics.
Synonyms
handbook
It would be wise to purchase a handbook on the subject.
guide
Our 10-page guide will help you change your life for the better.
manual
the instruction manual
instructions
catalogue
vade mecum
Additional synonyms
in the sense of guide
These restaurants are all highly rated in the guide.
Synonyms
directory,
street map
in the sense of guide
Definition
a book that explains the basics of a subject or skill
Our 10-page guide will help you change your life for the better.
Synonyms
handbook,
manual,
guidebook,
instructions,
cataloguein the sense of manual
Definition
a book of instructions or information
the instruction manual
Synonyms
handbook,
guide,
instructions,
bible,
guidebook,
workbook,
enchiridion (rare)
Synonyms of 'guidebook'
guidebook
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