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guide word

a word printed at the top of a page in a dictionary, encyclopedia, etc., usually the first or last entry on the page

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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