Baedeker
- noun
- /ˈbeɪdɪkər/
- Archaic
- No, Miss Bartlett, you will not look into your Baedeker.
- Baedeker guide
Examples
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Handed about like parcels from Venice to Florence to Rome, unconscious of anything outside Baedeker, anxious to get done and go on elsewhere.
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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.
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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
A book with details and maps to help travelers visit places
A book with information and advice for people visiting a place
A book that gives information about roads and routes, often with maps
Surface Forms
Etymology
Baedeker comes from the name of Karl Baedeker, a German who began publishing very popular travel guidebooks in the 1800s. So a 'Baedeker' came to mean a trusted 'guide' or 'guidebook' for travellers.