BAEDEKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Baedeker mean? 

• BAEDEKER (noun)
  The noun BAEDEKER has 2 senses:

1. German publisher of a series of travel guidebooks (1801-1859)

2. any of a series of travel guidebooks published by the German firm founded by Karl Baedeker

  Familiarity information: BAEDEKER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAEDEKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

German publisher of a series of travel guidebooks (1801-1859)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Baedeker; Karl Baedeker

Instance hypernyms:

publisher (a person engaged in publishing periodicals or books or music)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of a series of travel guidebooks published by the German firm founded by Karl Baedeker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("baedeker" is a kind of...):

itinerary; travel guidebook (a guidebook for travelers)

 Context examples 

"Speak for yourself!" cried Miss Baedeker violently. "Your hand shakes. I wouldn't let you operate on me!"

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

How do you feel, Miss Baedeker?

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"Anything I hate is to get my head stuck in a pool," mumbled Miss Baedeker. "They almost drowned me once over in New Jersey."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

A massive and lethargic woman, who had been urging Daisy to play golf with her at the local club tomorrow, spoke in Miss Baedeker's defence: "Oh, she's all right now. When she's had five or six cocktails she always starts screaming like that. I tell her she ought to leave it alone."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

In addition to all these I can remember that Faustina O'Brien came there at least once and the Baedeker girls and young Brewer who had his nose shot off in the war and Mr. Albrucksburger and Miss Haag, his fiancée, and Ardita Fitz-Peters, and Mr. P. Jewett, once head of the American Legion, and Miss Claudia Hip with a man reputed to be her chauffeur, and a prince of something whom we called Duke and whose name, if I ever knew it, I have forgotten.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)