tour guide

noun

Definition of tour guidenext
as in driver

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Recent Examples of tour guide Adam took off work and has become their full-time tour guide. — Taylor Eldridge, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026 The trips Sudō took with them, playing tour guide across remote regions of Japan, introduced her to many of the weavers and dyers, often working in small wooden ateliers attached to family homes, with whom Nuno still collaborates today. — Leslie Camhi, Vogue, 15 Sep. 2026 Woodley was introduced in Paradise‘s second season as Annie Clay, a former Graceland tour guide and The Day survivor. — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026 One tour guide in AlUla told me that Westerners were coming around to the idea of Saudi Arabia as a place to go on vacation. — Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tour guide
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  1. driver
  2. engineer
  3. pilot
  4. operator
  5. guide
Noun
  • Uber's practice of lifting fares when demand outstrips the supply of available drivers, such as during rush hour, is a type of dynamic pricing known as surge pricing.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
  • The pickup’s driver, a 34-year-old woman from Garden City, Kansas, was taken into custody but was later released after police consulted with the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office.
    — Maggie Vespa, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of driver
Noun
  • Associate Laboratory Director Jess Gehin said engineers currently rely on models to predict how this reactor design will perform.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026
  • In 2011, Ternus and five other Apple engineers filed a patent application for foldable electronic devices, according to a recent Time profile.
    — MacKenzie Sigalos,Kif Leswing, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of engineer
Noun
  • The closest America came was a 2003 federal indictment of a Cuban general and two fighter pilots — until this year, the 30th anniversary of the shootdown.
    — Liv Caputo Herald, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026
  • The first segment of the new season, hosted by Norah O’Donnell, was about a fighter pilot, code-named Bravo, whose plane was shot down over mountains in Iran.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of pilot
Noun
  • Ryder’s Law was reintroduced this year after another carriage horse collapsed and died in Central Park, and in a separate incident, tourist Romanch Mahajan, 18, died after falling off a carriage after the operator lost control.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Shares of Six Flags Entertainment sank 14% to their lowest level since 2009 on Tuesday after a deadly roller coaster incident forced the theme park operator to temporarily close some rides across the country.
    — Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of operator
Noun
  • Katrina Prowess, another Queens of the Crypt guide, shared a story about an alleged ghost at the Clothing Warehouse.
    — Madeline Montgomery, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The new show, which as yet is unnamed, will be a practical guide to buying and cooking produce seasonally for health and financial security.
    — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of guide

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“Tour guide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tour%20guide. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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