guidage

English

Etymology

From 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

References

• “guidage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

From guider +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

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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.