guide

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   use as a guide

   They had the lights to guide on

2. 2
   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.

3. 3
   noun

   A spirit believed to speak through a medium.

   The familiars of the magicians, on the other hand, were not in all cases evil, and often may have approximated the "guides" with whom present-day spiritualists are well acquainted.

4. 4
   verb

   To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.

   And that you'd guide me to your Soueraignes Court,

5. 5
   verb

   To exert control or influence over someone or something.

   A good man sheweth fauour and lendeth: he will guide his affaires with discretion.

6. 6
   name

   A county of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China.

   She said she had chosen to speak out because she wanted to explain to the public why she left Guide county in Qinghai, where she and her husband Xie Chengde ran a successful honey farm that once featured on state television. The authorities in Guide said they are now investigating the case following her accusations.

7. 7
   noun

   a structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something

8. 8
   noun

   a model or standard for making comparisons

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.