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# guidebook

«guidebook» in Mova's school dictionary: **A book that gives information to visitors about a place…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a guidebook, guidebooks)

### meaning for a pupil

A book that gives information to visitors about a place, such as a city, country, museum or castle, with maps, history and tips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guidebook/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life families take guidebooks on holiday; in geography lessons pupils may write their own guidebook to their town. In stories a guidebook helps travellers find hidden places. Phrases: a travel guidebook, according to the guidebook.

### examples

- The guidebook said the castle opens at ten. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guidebook/#x1)
- We wrote a guidebook to our town for visitors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guidebook/#x2)
- According to the guidebook, the museum is free. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guidebook/#x3)
- Mum read the guidebook on the plane to Dublin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guidebook/#x4)
- The guidebook had a map of the old city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guidebook/#x5)
- Nowadays many people use apps instead of guidebooks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guidebook/#x6)

### note

One word: guide + book. Plural: guidebooks. Spelling: «guide» has a silent u (g-u-i-d-e). A «guide» can also be a person who shows you around.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «guidebook» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guidebook/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.