guidebook

[ gahyd-book ]

noun

1. a book of directions, advice, and information, especially for travelers or tourists.

guidebook

/ ˈɡaɪdˌbʊk /

noun

1. a handbook with information for visitors to a place, as a historic building, museum, or foreign country Also calledguide

Other Words From

• guidebookish guidebooky adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of guidebook¹

First recorded in 1805–15; guide + book

Example Sentences

It was the perfect blend of exotic adventure and Lonely Planet guidebook assurances of safety.

From The Daily Beast

I had first learned of the prison way back in 2005 from a Lonely Planet guidebook.

From The Daily Beast

Nowadays people prepare for a trip by reading little more than a few pages of a guidebook.

From The Daily Beast

What is a young Finn or Spaniard visiting Israel/Palestine, this guidebook in hand, to make of this?

From The Daily Beast

A guidebook I read aptly called it “a conveyer belt of black hair.”

From The Daily Beast

One is an English youth, travelling for the first time, who has been hard at his Guidebook during the whole journey.

From Project Gutenberg

Observe in this book that Hawthorne gave the story such a faithful setting that it may be used as a guidebook to Rome.

From Project Gutenberg

Now, the Bible is a guidebook in the journey of life, and the only one that points the way to Heaven.

From Project Gutenberg

He studied his guidebook and every quarter of an hour looked at his watch.

From Project Gutenberg

The “Book of the Dead” was a guidebook of the itinerary of Egyptian souls.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• manual
• map
• reference book