GUIDE ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does guide on mean? 

• GUIDE ON (verb)
  The verb GUIDE ON has 1 sense:

1. use as a guide

  Familiarity information: GUIDE ON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUIDE ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Use as a guide

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

guide; guide on

Context example:

They had the lights to guide on

Hypernyms (to "guide on" is one way to...):

orient; orientate (determine one's position with reference to another point)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

We then slowly and cautiously set forth into the unknown, following the course of the little stream which flowed from our spring, as it should always serve us as a guide on our return.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With a confusion of ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth and my want of a guide on such matters, I had retrod the steps of knowledge along the paths of time and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchemists.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)