baedeker

Speech parts

1. baedeker - Noun

2. Baedeker - Proper noun

Meaning

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

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

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

Karl Baedeker murray handbook enchiridion guide manual itinerary guidebook Bradshaw vade mecum instruction book tourist guide

Hypernyms

itinerary travel guidebook

Examples

In his 1893 guidebook, Karl Baedeker described Baton Rouge as "the Capital of Louisiana, a quaint old place with 10,378 inhabitants, on a bluff above the Mississippi." Source: Internet

"When Lucy Honeychurch finds herself 'In Santa Croce with no Baedeker' in E. M. Forster's A Room with a View, she is entirely lost" (ODNB). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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