tour

See also Tour

English

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Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ)
• Homophone: tore (some accents)

Etymology 1

From Old French tour, tourn, from the verb torner, tourner.

Noun

tour (plural tours)

1. A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
2. A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
3. A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
4. (sports, chiefly cricket and rugby) A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
5. (military) A tour of duty.

Derived terms

• tour de force
• tour d'horizon

Translations

journey

• Arabic: رحلة (ar) (ríḥla) f, جولة (ar) (jáwla) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 旅游 (cmn) (lǚyóu), 旅行 (cmn) (lǚxíng), 旅途 (cmn) (lǚtú), 旅程 (cmn) (lǚchéng)

• Dutch: excursie (nl), reis (nl) f, toer (nl) m
• Finnish: matka (fi), kiertoajelu (fi), kiertokäynti (fi), ekskursio (fi)
• French: excursion (fr) m, voyage (fr) m, tournée (fr) f
• German: Tour (de) f, Reise (de) f

• Greek: περιοδεία (el) (periodeía) f 
• Hebrew: סיור (he) (siur) m, טיול (he) (tiul) m
• Japanese: 旅行 (ja) (ryokō), 旅 (ja) (tabi), ツアー (ja) (tsuā)
• Korean: 여행 (ko) (yeohaeng) (旅行 (ko)), 투어 (ko) (tueo)
• Russian: путешествие (ru) (putešéstvije) n , поездка (ru) (pojézdka) f , (indeclinable) турне (ru) (turnɛ́) n 
• Scottish Gaelic: cuairt (gd) f, turas (gd) m
• Turkish: gezi (tr), gezinti (tr)

guided visit

• Dutch: rondgang (nl), rondleiding (nl)
• Finnish: kiertokäynti (fi), opastettu (fi) kierros (fi)
• German: Tour (de) f
• Greek: περιήγηση (el) (periígisi) f , ξενάγηση (el) (xenágisi) f 

• Russian: тур (ru) (tur) m 
• Scottish Gaelic: cuairt (gd) f, turas (gd) m
• Turkish: tur (tr)

journey through given list of places

• Finnish: kiertue (fi)
• French: tournée (fr) f
• German: Tour (de) f, Tournee (de) f
• Greek: περιοδεία (el) (periodeía) f 
• Hebrew: סבב הופעות (sevev hofāʿot) m

• Italian: tournée (it) f, (abbrivation) tour (it) f
• Scottish Gaelic: cuairt (gd) f, turas (gd) m
• Spanish: gira (es)
• Swedish: turné (sv) c

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• Dutch: rondreis f and m

Verb

tour (third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured)

1. (intransitive) To make a journey; as, to tour throughout a country.
2. (transitive) To make a circuit of a place

Translations

to make a journey

• Dutch: tournee (nl) f
• French: tourner (fr)
• Greek: περιοδεύω (el) (periodévo) , περιηγούμαι (el) (periigoúmai) 

• Spanish: recorrer (es)
• Turkish: gezmek (tr)

to make a circuit

• Spanish: recorrer (es)

• Turkish: turlamak (tr)

Etymology 2

Old French tor, French tour (“tower”)

Noun

tour (plural tours)

1. (dated) A tower.

Etymology 3

See toot.

Verb

tour (third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured)

1. (obsolete) To toot a horn.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

• rout
• trou

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French

Pronunciation

• tour

  (file)

• IPA: /tuʁ/, X-SAMPA: /tuR/

Etymology 1

From Old French tor, from Latin turris

Noun

tour f (plural tours)

1. tower

   La tour de Pise est penchée. - The Tower of Pisa is leaning.

2. (chess) rook

Etymology 2

From Old French torner, tourner.

Noun

tour m (plural tours)

1. turn, circumference
2. go, turn
3. walk, stroll

Etymology 3

From Latin tornus.

Noun

tour m (plural tours)

1. lathe, potter’s wheel

Anagrams

• trou

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Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tur/

Etymology 1

Noun

tour (plural tours)

1. tour

Etymology 2

Noun

tour (plural tours)

1. tower