guidebook

nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,595 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: guidebooks

A guidebook is a book of information for visitors to a place. An old guidebook.

An out-of-date one is often more interesting than a current one, since it shows what has gone. A guidebook tells you where everybody else will be, which is worth knowing either way.

Definitions of guidebook

1nounguidebookA book of information for visitors to a place.B1+
“The guidebook was thirty years old and half the streets had changed names.”

guidebook is a book.

Practise this word

guidebook in the wild

The Milepost is an extensive guidebook covering Alaska, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and British Columbia.
The Milepost
Climbing guidebooks are used by mountaineers, alpinists, ice climbers, and rock climbers to locate, grade, and navigate climbing routes on mountains, climbing crags, or bouldering areas.
Climbing guidebook
The small tomb was open to visitors in the early 1900s when it was described in a tourist guidebook.
KV33
Frommer's has since expanded to include more than 350 guidebooks in 14 series, as well as other media including an eponymous radio show and a website.
Frommer's
Fifty Classic Climbs of North America is a 1979 climbing guidebook and history written by Steve Roper and Allen Steck.
Fifty Classic Climbs of North America

1 / 2

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

← Vocabulary