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guide
noun as in something that or someone who leads
Strong matches
adviser, attendant, captain, chaperon, cicerone, conductor, controller, convoy, criterion, design, director, docent, escort, example, exemplar, exhibitor, genie, genius, guru, ideal, inspiration, lead, leader, lodestar, monitor, paradigm, pathfinder, pattern, pioneer, rudder, scout, standard, superintendent, usher, vanguard
Weak match
noun as in information, instructions
Strong matches
ABCs, beacon, bellwether, Bible, compendium, enchiridion, landmark, lodestar, mark, marker, pointer, print, sign, signal, signpost, telltale, tip-off
Weak matches
chapter and verse, guiding light, hot lead, no-no's, the book, the numbers, vade mecum
verb as in direct, lead
Strongest matches
accompany, advise, educate, escort, govern, handle, influence, instruct, manage, maneuver, navigate, oversee, regulate, see, shepherd, steer, supervise, sway, teach, train, usher
Strong matches
attend, beacon, chaperon, command, conduct, contrive, control, convoy, counsel, coxswain, engineer, marshal, pilot, quarterback, route, rule, show, spearhead, superintend
Weak matches
Example Sentences
"Here, it helped guide us to think about how the cell density, proliferation rate, signaling, and all these different things conspire."
Now Dobbins’ bright smile is guiding the Chargers through the storm.
The agency regulates health insurance and sets policy that guides the prices that doctors, hospitals and drug companies are paid for medical services.
Here’s how our contributors are reimagining fall desserts, with stories and inspiration to guide you to your next favorite treat.
A chapter in a 920-page document called Project 2025 offers the most specific guide to a possible Trump agenda for EPA.
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When To Use
What are other ways to say guide?
The verb guide implies continuous presence or agency in showing or indicating a course: to guide a traveler. To conduct is to precede or escort to a place, sometimes with a degree of ceremony: to conduct a guest to his room. To direct is to give information for guidance, or instructions or orders for a course of procedure: to direct someone to the station. To lead is to bring onward in a course, guiding by contact or by going in advance; hence, figuratively, to influence or induce to some course of conduct: to lead a procession; to lead astray.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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