guide
Synonyms:
pilot, steer, escort. regulate, manage, govern, rule. pilot, director, conductor. sign, signal, indication, key, clue.
(noun) attendant, companion, escort, guard.
(verb) coach, counsel, lead, mentor, pilot, shepherd, show, tutor.
Antonym:
follow.
Related Words:
mentor, model, counselor, teacher, pilot, guidebook, manual, clue, catalog, handbook, key, directory, shepherd, educate, manage, handle, maneuver, oversee, navigate, govern.
Synonym Study 1:
Guide, conduct, direct, and lead imply showing the way or pointing out or determining the course to be taken.
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, fig., to influence or induce to some course of conduct:
to lead a procession; to lead astray.
Synonym Study 2:
Guide, lead, steer, pilot, and engineer mean to direct in a course or show the way to be followed.
Guide implies intimate knowledge of the way and of all its difficulties and dangers:
guided the scouts through the cave.
Lead implies showing the way and often keeping those that follow under control and in order:
led his team to victory.
Steer implies an ability to keep to a course and stresses the capacity of maneuvering correctly:
steered the ship through a narrow channel.
Pilot suggests guidance over a dangerous or complicated course:
piloted the bill through the Senate.
Engineer implies finding ways to avoid or overcome difficulties in achieving an end or carrying out a plan:
engineered his son's election to the governorship.
Origin:
1325–75; Middle English giden (v.), gide (noun) < Old French gui(d)er (v.), gui(d)e (noun) < Germanic; akin to wit2. Dictionary 2: C14: from (Old) French guider, of Germanic origin; compare Old English wītan to observe. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use: Noun: 14th century. Verb: 14th century. History and Etymology: Noun and Verb: Middle English gide, guide, from Anglo-French, from Old Occitan guida, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English wītan to look after, witan to know — more at wit. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
pilot, steer, escort. regulate, manage, govern, rule. pilot, director, conductor. sign, signal, indication, key, clue.
(noun) attendant, companion, escort, guard.
(verb) coach, counsel, lead, mentor, pilot, shepherd, show, tutor.
Antonym:
follow.
Related Words:
mentor, model, counselor, teacher, pilot, guidebook, manual, clue, catalog, handbook, key, directory, shepherd, educate, manage, handle, maneuver, oversee, navigate, govern.
Synonym Study 1:
Guide, conduct, direct, and lead imply showing the way or pointing out or determining the course to be taken.
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, fig., to influence or induce to some course of conduct:
to lead a procession; to lead astray.
Synonym Study 2:
Guide, lead, steer, pilot, and engineer mean to direct in a course or show the way to be followed.
Guide implies intimate knowledge of the way and of all its difficulties and dangers:
guided the scouts through the cave.
Lead implies showing the way and often keeping those that follow under control and in order:
led his team to victory.
Steer implies an ability to keep to a course and stresses the capacity of maneuvering correctly:
steered the ship through a narrow channel.
Pilot suggests guidance over a dangerous or complicated course:
piloted the bill through the Senate.
Engineer implies finding ways to avoid or overcome difficulties in achieving an end or carrying out a plan:
engineered his son's election to the governorship.
Origin:
1325–75; Middle English giden (v.), gide (noun) < Old French gui(d)er (v.), gui(d)e (noun) < Germanic; akin to wit2. Dictionary 2: C14: from (Old) French guider, of Germanic origin; compare Old English wītan to observe. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use: Noun: 14th century. Verb: 14th century. History and Etymology: Noun and Verb: Middle English gide, guide, from Anglo-French, from Old Occitan guida, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English wītan to look after, witan to know — more at wit. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.