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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
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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
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attend, beacon, chaperon, command, conduct, contrive, control, convoy, counsel, coxswain, engineer, marshal, pilot, quarterback, route, rule, show, spearhead, superintend
Weak matches
Example Sentences
It is Amorim who is guiding players through the patterns he wants to establish.
And this week, The Times is happy to be your guide to some of the most noteworthy offerings, from Oscar contenders and crowd-pleasers to holiday specials you and the family can curl up with.
Dozens of school groups are listening attentively to guides about their city’s colourful history while a queue forms around the altar to make a wish.
Mr. Frommer was selling 300,000 copies of his guide every year by the mid-1960s; by some contemporary accounts, they represented a quarter to a third of all European guidebooks sold in the United States.
Gender, demographic and regional differences should also guide health care strategies.
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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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