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noun
Guidebook  n.  A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Guidebook" Quotes from Famous Books



... "done" the Citadel. They had climbed its rocky hill, they had viewed the Mahomet Ali mosque and its columns and its carpets and had taken their guide's and their guidebook's word that it was an inferior structure although so amazingly effective from below; they had looked studiously down upon the city and tried to distinguish its minarets and towers and ancient gates, they had viewed with proper quizzicalness the imprint in the stone parapet ...
— The Fortieth Door • Mary Hastings Bradley

... disappeared. At the end of that time, looking very brown, a shade thinner, and possessed of a knowledge of the older towns of Normandy which would not have disgraced a guidebook, he arrived one cold, gray morning at the Gare du Nord. During all this time he had scarcely seen one familiar face. It was an unpleasant shock for him, as he waited for his baggage in the Customs ...
— The Mischief Maker • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... protected by game laws, although twenty years ago a reward was offered by the Government for their destruction. The 'Rifle and Hound' can no longer be accepted as a guidebook to the sports in Ceylon; the country is changed, and in many districts the forests have been cleared, and civilization has advanced into the domains of wild beasts. The colony has been blessed with prosperity, and the gradual ...
— The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon • Samuel White Baker

... Within.—A holiday visitor to a foreign city walks through the streets, guidebook in hand, looking at monuments, churches, public buildings and the outsides of the houses, and in this way is supposed to be made acquainted with the town; but, on reflection, he will find that he has scarcely learned anything ...
— The Life of St. Paul • James Stalker



Words linked to "Guidebook" :   travel guidebook, itinerary, handbook, guide, roadbook



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