Baedeker Definition

bādĭ-kər
noun
A guidebook to countries or a country.
American Heritage
Any of a series of guidebooks to foreign countries, first published in Germany by Karl Baedeker (1801-59)
Webster's New World
Any guidebook.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • Karl Baedeker
pronoun

Proprietary name of a longtime series of travel guidebooks.

Wiktionary

(by extension from the proprietary name) Any travel guide, advice for travelers, or guide pertaining to other subjects.

Wiktionary

Origin of Baedeker

  • After the guidebooks published by Karl Baedeker

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Baedeker Sentence Examples

  • See latest editions of guidebooks to Lower Egypt (Baedeker, Murray, Macmillan).

  • See Baedeker's Egypt; Ed.

  • Lyons, A Report on the Island and Temples of Philae (Cairo, 1896), with numerous plans and photographs; a seco!.d report, A Report on the Temples of Philae (1908), deals with the condition of the ruins as affected by the immersions occasioned by the filling of the Assuan dam; Baedeker's Egypt; and on the effects of the submersion, &c., reports in Annales du service des antiquite's, vols.

  • The population was estimated by Olivier in 1796 at 20,000 to 24,000, by Buckingham at 50,000, by Chernik in 1873 at 40,000, by Sachau in 1879 at 50,000, in Baedeker's Handbook in 1906 at 30,000.

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