Guide and Principle

Guide

Guide noun - One that accompanies another for protection, guidance, or as a courtesy.

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Principle and guide are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Principle" instead a noun "Guide".

Nearby Words: guidance, guided, guideline, guiding

Principle noun - A basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct.

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Guide and principle are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Guide" instead a noun "Principle".

Nearby Words: principal, principled, principally, principe

old	old guide	old principle
good	good guide	good principle
similar	similar guide	similar principle
original	original guide	original principle
Other adjectives: entire, real, main, moral, new, major, general, basic.

An elderly man named Anselmo is Robert Jordan's guide, and while he is averse to killing out of principle, his loyalty and local knowledge make him a valuable asset.

Source: Literature / For Whom the Bell Tolls
Yahtzee: (on The Talos Principle) Hope you like weighing down switches with boxes and redirecting laser beams and everything else from the "Insert puzzle here"-guide to video game design....Even in context, it's admittedly busywork.

Source: Ruins for Ruins' Sake
The space opera-themed chapter of the Tooniversal Tour Guide supplement mentions a planet that is so dependent on this principle that it's off limits to visitors for fear that they might bring its whole civilization crashing down by pointing out that it can't work.

Source: Puff of Logic

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