Baedeker

Examples

• All

• Handed about like parcels from Venice to Florence to Rome, unconscious of anything outside Baedeker, anxious to get done and go on elsewhere.

  A Room with a View (1986)

• They were called Baedeker raids because they were aimed at the guidebook towns that symbolized British antiquity.

  Fiction book (2002)

• I passed time on the train with Baedeker's Guide to Germany.

  Academic text (1992)

• There was a bookstore on the corner that specialized in travel writing, its window full of Baedekers and memoirs.

  Fiction book (1995)

• BILLY: Oh, that's the Villa Capriccio, famed in song and story, a three star attraction in Baedeker.

  Beat the Devil (1953)

• It might have been Colonel Ponsonby's thrilling Headhunting in the South Pacific or Baedeker's Guide to Geneva.

  Fiction book (2002)

• They had trudged through Goethe's house in Frankfurt, Baedekers in hand.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Baedeker's "Greece," Leipzig, 1909.

  Blog text (19)

• In "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar," we have the wretched Bleistein: "Chicago Semite Viennese."

  Academic text (2010)

• During our road trip, we relied on a Baedeker to find the best attractions in Italy.

Synonyms

I

itinerary

vsBaedeker

4 4.0

A book with details and maps to help travelers visit places

is an authoritative published series, not merely a planned list of stops

T

travel guidebook

vsBaedeker

2.3

A book with information and advice for people visiting a place

is presented as an authoritative, branded series rather than general advice

R

roadbook

vsBaedeker

7.1

A book that gives information about roads and routes, often with maps

is broader and more authoritative about places beyond just roads

Surface Forms

Etymology