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guide noun ( BOOK )

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Definition

a book which gives you the most important information about a particular subject
a hotel/wine guide
a guide to the birds of North America
a guidebook
a guide to the British Isles
tourist guides

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

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