guidés

Guidés is a French term that functions as the masculine plural past participle of the verb guider, meaning “guided.” It is most commonly used as an adjective to describe people or objects that have been led or directed, and it can also appear as a noun in fewer contexts. The feminine forms are guidée (singular) and guidées (plural). The masculine singular form is guidé.

In typical usage, guidés describes groups or individuals who are led by a guide. It is frequently found in tourism and education language, often in phrases such as visite guidée (guided tour), parcours guidé (guided route), or des touristes guidés par un guide expérimenté (tourists guided by an experienced guide). The term can also appear in compound nouns and noun phrases like groupes guidés or trajets guidés.

As an adjective, guidé agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies: un groupe guidé, des groupes guidés; une visite guidée, des visites guidées. The noun forme les guidés, used to refer to “the guided,” is rarer and often appears in comparative or descriptive discussion of roles, typically contrasted with les guides, the guides.

Related terms include guide (the person who leads or directs), guider (to guide), guide touristique (tour guide), and guidage (the act or process of guiding). The expression visite guidée is a standard way to specify a guided visit in French, and the word guidage covers broader notions of guidance or navigation in various contexts.