guidage

guidage

English

Etymology

guide +‎ -age?

Noun

guidage (countable and uncountable, plural guidages)

1. The fee paid to a guide.
2. (obsolete) guidance; lead; direction
   • 1808, Robert Southey, Chronicle of the Cid, from the Spanish

     And the Alfaqui thought that happy man was his dole now that the people had committed themselves to his guidage, and he went to Abeniaf and communed with him, and their accord was to give up all hope of succor

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for guidage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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French

Etymology

From guider +‎ -age.

Noun

guidage m (plural guidages)

1. guidance; the act of guiding

Derived terms

• système de guidage

Further reading

• “guidage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.