Meaning of tourguide | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“We wandered from door to door inside the courtyard, but everything was locked and there was no tourguide. […] Finally our tourguide showed up: a lively young woman who led us down into the dark bowels of the castle, […] At that moment I realized I'd been deserted by the tourgroup-⁠-Betty and kids, the tourguide and flashlight, they were all gone-⁠-I could hear⟳ their voices faintly down one of the dark corridors.”

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“From a high-school class trip⟳ to Washington, she remembered a tourguide showing them a spot in the Capitol’s rotunda from which even a whispered conversation was picked up and, by a quirk of architecture, transmitted across the huge dome to the far side of that great space, where eavesdroppers could hear⟳ it with perfect clarity.”

“Tourguides were like⟳ bits of ash in your food: the first few times they were kind of annoying, but after a while you learned not to notice⟳ they were there. […] They led tourists around Boomtown and told them touristy things, and every Saturday night at least one (tourguide, not tourist) would get⟳ run⟳ up the flagpole upside down or used for target⟳ practice in an alley. As robots went, they were about as smart as a toaster set⟳ on “medium to light⟳.””

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