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"guide" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often steer (5 letters).
Definitions
pass over, across, or through
Word origin
c. 1325–75. From Middle English guide, from the Old French guide, from Old Occitan guida, from guidar, from Frankish *wītan (“to show the way, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to see, know; go, depart”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). Cognate with Old English wītan (“to see, take heed to, watch after, guard, keep”). Related also to English wit.
Used in a sentence
“The guide led us around the museum and explained the exhibits.”
“He will be our guide, even unto death.”
“The familiars of the magicians, on the other hand, were not in all cases evil, and often may have approximated the "guides" with whom present-day spiritualists are well acquainted.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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