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🧑‍🦯 A travel helper 📱 A digital walkthrough
tour guide

tour guide

1 3.3
A built-in set of steps that shows new users how to use an app or website
  • noun
  • Texting
translation icon : recorrido guiado
  • ...AND I'LL BE YOUR TOUR GUIDE.

Examples

  • You know, the tour guide part of the job.

    Limbo (1999)

  • The game can be quite a tour guide.

    Blog text (20)

  • I get the tour guide!

    My Life in Ruins (2009)

  • (To TOUR GUIDE:) I guess we just like a little perspective with our history.

    Academic text (2007)

  • SpotDash is an entertaining mix of quiz game, tour guide, and scavenger hunt that will take you on a festive fall journey throughout the area.

    Blog text (9)

  • Joseph's not planning to quit his tour-guide gig, but he's definitely gonna be scarce over the next several months.

    Blog text (21)

  • -TOUR GUIDE:

    The Bridge (2006)

  • (MALE TOURIST snaps a photo of TOUR GUIDE.)

    Academic text (2007)

  • The new tour guide feature in the app shows users how to navigate its many tools.

  • With the tour guide option, new users can easily learn about all the features of the software.

Synonyms

tour
vstour guide
  • Texting
217 3.5

An online guided view of a place that you can explore

is embedded in software to guide new users through features
walkthrough
vstour guide
2 3.9

A guided tour of a place to check its condition

teaches users how to use app features rather than inspecting locations
guider
vstour guide
3.8

A person who leads a group and shows the way

acts as a built-in interactive lesson inside software for newcomers

How Helpful

tour guide
  • Texting
1 3.3
tutorial
  • Texting
45 3.7
explainer
  • Literature
1 4.0
hint
229 1.5
to hover
  • Specialized
8 4.1

Surface Forms

tour guide singular
tour guides plural

Morphology

tour + guide

The compound combines 'tour' (a trip or sequence of stops) with 'guide' (one who leads or explains), so its meaning is directly the entity that guides a tour; this compositional relation is transparent to learners who know both words. Even when used for software ('guided walkthrough'), the meaning remains a straightforward extension—'a guide that provides a tour'—and many languages use the same logic, so a B1 learner can infer it from the constituents.

Etymology

Tour guide for apps borrows the idea of a human guide leading visitors: an on-screen guide points to buttons, explains steps, and walks new users through the site or app. That's why the digital tour guide means 'a built-in walkthrough that shows features and explains how to use them'.