Meaning of guidebook in English

guidebook

noun [ C ]

/ˈɡaɪd.bʊk/ us

/ˈɡaɪd.bʊk/

(also guide)

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a book that gives information for visitors about a place, such as a city or country:

a guidebook to Montreal

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(Definition of guidebook from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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guidebook

noun [ C ]

/ˈɡɑɪdˌbʊk/

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a book that gives information for visitors about a place, such as a city or region of a country:

We bought a guidebook for the New England area.

(Definition of guidebook from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of guidebook

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This shows that all nurses used the guidebook theme with the other themes mentioned by more than 80% of nurses.

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All the nurses referred to the guidebook in their explanations and more than 85% used at least two other distinct thematic rationales.

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In this example the guidebook provides me (qua speaker) with a defeater for my belief that the university was founded in 1495.

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Thus, their guidebooks, like their autobiographical texts, can be seen as a kind of self-memorialization.

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The piece mimics his cumbersome vocabulary, his tendency to write in the style of a guidebook, and his fascination with botanical and geological terms.

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I have recently misinterpreted signs at a beauty spot car park, in a holiday accommodation guidebook, and in a shopping precinct.

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Rather, this is a succinct, authoritative guidebook for linguists who give scientific advice to attorneys about linguistic issues in criminal and civil court cases.

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The choir sang the guidebook material, whilst hidden solo voices sang the ancient poetry about lost love.

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All guidebooks about style are really snapshots of usage at a particular time.

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This shows that the three most frequent underlying concepts used were those in the guidebook theme.

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Notably war literature, battlefield guidebooks, and visual imagery furnished a repertoire of forms that could be drawn upon by the memorial makers.

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Most frame their narratives within the picturesque and slum romance genres employed by tourist guidebooks, popular fiction and city journalists.

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This makes the guidebook seem as if it were designed specifically for literary tourists rather than for a more generalized traveler.

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Since then architectural guidebooks have proliferated and the introduction of photography and high quality graphics has changed their appearance significantly.

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Our guidebook places the personal, fictional, and mythical on an equal footing with factual, municipal history.

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旅行指南…

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