If a tourist is guided through a city by a tour guide, what would be the term to use to refer to that tourist as a function of the guiding? Best I can come up with is guided one, but that sounds a bit bland. Are there any better terms for this? I'm looking for a term that can be used in a context where the term is the only thing that indicates guidance.
some context about the guidance:
The guide has a subordinate role, providing sensory information and advice to the person being guided. The person being guided is less a follower and more a master, but I don't want to use the term master because that feels too much like slavery. It's also not really a student/teacher relationship, because the information flows the wrong direction for that. Essentially, the guide has a role somewhere between mentor and assistent, and it's that role that I want to reflect in the term.
example:
"The [Word] was suddenly stopped by the tour guide".
"The [Word] was accompanied by his guide animal."
"The [Word] was on a tour of the building he helped fund."
"A [Word] can only receive guidance from 1 ancestor at a time." (context that I want to use it in in my book).
"A [Word] has heightened senses and an increased capacity for both abstract and logical thought."
Best Answer
Consider guidee, which means
An example sentence:
It doesn't fit your desired context, though. For that, you might just want to go with a higher sortal, like "person":
In fact, higher sortals work in all your examples, and are, in my opinion, preferable to using a synonym of "the guided" or "follower". Using the latter in your contexts actually creates redundancies since the consequent material of all of the sentences make it plain that the contexts are ones of guidance. There is no use to encode this information twice.
All of these sentences contain more information than would the corresponding sentence where the italicized sortal is substitued with a redundant synyonym of "follower".