guide dog

English

A guide dog.

Noun

guide dog (plural guide dogs)

1. A dog that is trained to be of assistance to a vision-impaired or hearing-impaired person and is thus able to guide them.

   Synonym: dog guide

   Hypernyms: service dog; < working dog; < working animal

   Hyponyms: seeing-eye dog, hearing-ear dog, hearing dog

   Coordinate term: herding dog

Translations

dog that is trained to be of assistance to a blind person

• Catalan: gos pigall m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 導盲犬／导盲犬 (zh) (dǎomángquǎn)

• Danish: førerhund (da) c
• Dutch: geleidehond (nl) m, blindengeleidehond (nl) m
• Estonian: juhtkoer
• Finnish: opaskoira (fi)
• French: chien d’aveugle (fr) m, chien guide d’aveugle (fr) m
• German: Blindenhund (de) m, Blindenführhund (de) m
• Hebrew: כֶּלֶב נְחִיָּה (he) m (kélev n'ẖiyá)
• Hungarian: vakvezető kutya (hu)
• Japanese: 盲導犬 (ja) (もうどうけん, mōdōken)
• Korean: 안내견(案內犬) (annaegyeon)
• Malay: anjing pandu
• Maori: kurī arataki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: førerhund m

  Nynorsk: førarhund m

• Polish: pies przewodnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: cão-guia m
• Russian: соба́ка-поводы́рь f (sobáka-povodýrʹ)
• Spanish: perro guía m, perro lazarillo m
• Swedish: ledarhund (sv) c, blindhund c
• Turkish: rehber köpek

See also

• service dog

Anagrams

• dog guide