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guide
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?d/
- Rhymes: -a?d
Etymology 1
c. 1325–75. From Middle English guide, from the Old French guide, from Old Occitan guida, from guidar, from Frankish *w?tan (“to show the way, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *w?tan? (“to see, know; go, depart”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). Cognate with Old English w?tan (“to see, take heed to, watch after, guard, keep”). Related also to English wit.
Noun
guide (plural guides)
- Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation.
- The guide led us around the museum and explained the exhibits.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Psalms xlviii. 14
- He will be our guide, even unto death.
- A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
- A sign that guides people; guidepost.
- Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
- A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.
- A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.
- A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.
- (printing, dated) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy being set.
- (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
- (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English guiden, from Old French guider, from Old Occitan guidar, from Frankish *w?tan (“to show the way, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *w?tan? (“to see, know; go, depart”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”).
Verb
guide (third-person singular simple present guides, present participle guiding, simple past and past participle guided)
- to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
- to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
- to exert control or influence over someone or something.
- to supervise the education or training of someone.
- (intransitive) to act as a guide.
Derived terms
- guidee
Translations
References
- guide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “guide”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
- “guide” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "guide" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
Anagrams
- digue, iudge
French
Etymology
From Old French guide, borrowed from Old Occitan guida, from the verb guidar, ultimately of Germanic origin, possibly through Medieval Latin; cf. Frankish *w?tan. Supplanted the older Old French guier, of the same origin. Compare Italian guida, Spanish guía. See guider for more information.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?id/
- Homophone: guides
- Rhymes: -id
Noun
guide m (plural guides)
- guide person
- guidebook, or set itinerary.
Derived terms
- chien guide d'aveugle
- mener la vie à grandes guides
Related terms
- guider
Descendants
- ? Danish: guide
- ? Romanian: ghid
- ? Russian: ??? (gid)
References
- "guide" in the WordReference Dictionnaire Français-Anglais, WordReference.com LLC, 2006.
Further reading
- “guide” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- digue
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ide
Noun
guide f
- plural of guida
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from English guide.
Noun
guide m (definite singular guiden, indefinite plural guider, definite plural guidene)
- a guide (person who guides tourists)
- a guide (handbook, e.g. for tourists)
Alternative forms
- gaid
Verb
guide (imperative guid, present tense guider, passive guides, simple past and past participle guida or guidet, present participle guidende)
- to guide (usually tourists)
Alternative forms
- gaide
References
- “guide” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “guide_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “guide_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from English guide.
Noun
guide m (definite singular guiden, indefinite plural guidar, definite plural guidane)
- a guide (person who guides tourists)
- a guide (handbook, e.g. for tourists)
Alternative forms
- gaid
Verb
guide (present tense guidar, past tense guida, past participle guida, passive infinitive guidast, present participle guidande, imperative guid)
- to guide (usually tourists)
Alternative forms
- gaide, guida
References
- “guide” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Noun
guide m or f
- a guide (person who guides)
Descendants
- French: guide
- ? Danish: guide
- ? Romanian: ghid
- ? Russian: ??? (gid)
- Norman: dgide (Jersey)
- ? Middle English: giden, gide
- Scots: guide
- English: guide
- ? Korean: ??? (gaideu)
- ? Japanese: ??? (gaido)
- ? Norwegian: guide
- ? Swedish: guide
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *g?ody?, from Proto-Indo-European *g??od?-yeh?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??uð?e]
Noun
guide f (genitive guide, nominative plural guidi)
- verbal noun of guidid
- prayer
- c. 808, Félire Oengusso, published in Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee (1905, Harrison & Sons), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes, Epilogue, line 421
- c. 808, Félire Oengusso, published in Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee (1905, Harrison & Sons), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes, Epilogue, line 421
Declension
Descendants
- Irish: guí
- Manx: gwee (“curse, imprecation”)
- Scottish Gaelic: guidhe
Mutation
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
guide c
- guide (person who guides)
- Synonym: vägledare
- (computing) wizard (program or script used to simplify complex operations)
- Synonym: assistent
Declension
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advance
English
Alternative forms
- advaunce (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English avauncen, avancen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman avauncer, avancer, avancier (French avancer), from Vulgar Latin *abanti?re, from Late Latin abante, from Latin ab + ante (“before”). ?d? added in analogy to Latin ad- (cf. Middle French advancer). Compare avaunt.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, Southern England) IPA(key): /?d?v??ns/
- (US) IPA(key): /?d?væns/
- (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?d?va?ns/
- Rhymes: -??ns, -æns
Verb
advance (third-person singular simple present advances, present participle advancing, simple past and past participle advanced)
- To promote or advantage.
- To help the progress of (something); to further. [from 12th c.]
- 2018, Kareem Shaheen, The Guardian, 26 January:
- Some see it as in effect the end of the Syrian uprising that began with peaceful protests against Assad’s police state in 2011, with opposition fighters working to advance Turkey’s interests at the expense of the revolution’s goals.
- 2018, Kareem Shaheen, The Guardian, 26 January:
- To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote. [from 14th c.]
- 1611, The Bible, Authorized (King James) Version, Esther III.1:
- After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.
- 1838, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic
- This, however, was in time evaded by the monarchs, who advanced certain of their own retainers to a level with the ancient peers of the land […]
- 1611, The Bible, Authorized (King James) Version, Esther III.1:
- To help the progress of (something); to further. [from 12th c.]
- To move forward in space or time.
- To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully. [from 14th c.]
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
- Whence and what art thou, execrable shape, / That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance / Thy miscreated front athwart my way / To yonder gates?
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
- To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten. [form 15th c.]
- (intransitive) To move forwards; to approach. [from 16th c.]
- 1829, Marchioness of Lemington, Rosina, or the Virtuous Country Maid, Ninth ed.:
- I advanced towards him step by step, stopping sometimes for fear of waking him.
- 1829, Marchioness of Lemington, Rosina, or the Virtuous Country Maid, Ninth ed.:
- To provide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; to lend. [from 16th c.]
- 1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn:
- “I had intended to ask you to advance me a hundred pounds,” said Phineas.
- 1871, James William Gilbart, The Principles and Practice of Banking:
- On the urgent representations of several parties of the first importance in the City of London, the bank advanced 120,000l. to the Governor and Company of the Copper Miners […].
- 1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn:
- To put forward (an idea, argument etc.); to propose. [from 16th c.]
- 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Crticism:
- Some ne'er advance a Judgement of their own, / But catch the spreading notion of the Town […].
- 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Crticism:
- (intransitive) To make progress; to do well, to succeed. [from 16th c.]
- 2014, Andrew Sparrow, The Guardian, 24 April:
- Earlier the caller said men were more likely to be in senior positions. Clegg says that's partly because the current maternity leave arrangements make it difficult for women to advance in the workplace.
- 2014, Andrew Sparrow, The Guardian, 24 April:
- (intransitive) To move forward in time; to progress towards completion. [from 16th c.]
- 1927, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes:
- I can promise you that you will feel even less humorous as the evening advances.
- 1927, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes:
- To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully. [from 14th c.]
- To raise, be raised.
- (transitive, now archaic) To raise; to lift or elevate. [from 14th c.]
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, I.2:
- The fringed Curtaines of thine eyes aduance.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, I.2:
- To raise or increase (a price, rate). [from 14th c.]
- 1924, The Times, 16 July:
- In February last […] bakers advanced the price of bread sold over the counter in London from 8d. to 8½d. per quartern loaf.
- 1924, The Times, 16 July:
- To increase (a number or amount). [from 16th c.]
- (intransitive) To make a higher bid at an auction. [from 18th c.]
- (transitive, now archaic) To raise; to lift or elevate. [from 14th c.]
Synonyms
- raise, elevate, exalt, aggrandize, improve, heighten, accelerate, allege, adduce, assign
Antonyms
- regress
- retract (in phonetics)
Derived terms
- advancement
- in advance
- in advance of
Translations
Noun
advance (plural advances)
- A forward move; improvement or progression.
- An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
- 1917, James Joyce, Dubliners (Counterparts)
- Could he ask the cashier privately for an advance? No, the cashier was no good, no damn good: he wouldn't give an advance.
- 1780, John Jay, letter dated November 21
- I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances.
- 1917, James Joyce, Dubliners (Counterparts)
- An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
- (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
- 1708, Jonathan Swift, The Sentiments of a Church of England Man with Respect to Religion and Government
- For, if it were of any use to recall matters of fact, what is more notorious, than that prince's applying himself first to the church of England? and upon their refusal to fall in with his measures, making the like advances to the dissenters of all kinds, who readily and almost universally complied with him
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot, chapter 4:
- As the sun fell, so did our spirits. I had tried to make advances to the girl again; but she would have none of me, and so I was not only thirsty but otherwise sad and downhearted.
- 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt
- I felt vaguely he was a sneak, and remained quite unmollified by advances on his side, which, in a boy's barbarous fashion, unless it suited me to be magnanimous, I haughtily ignored.
- 1708, Jonathan Swift, The Sentiments of a Church of England Man with Respect to Religion and Government
Antonyms
- (forward move): regress, regression
Translations
Adjective
advance (comparative more advance, superlative most advance)
- Completed before necessary or a milestone event.
- preceding
- forward
Derived terms
- advance person
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