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

[edit] Noun

Singular
tour

Plural
tours

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. (cricket) A trip taken to another nation by a test side in which several matches will be played
  5. (dated) A tower.

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Infinitive
to tour

Third person singular
tours

Simple past
toured

Past participle
toured

Present participle
touring

to 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

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[edit] French

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Latin turris (tower).

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tour f. (plural tours)

  1. tower
    La Tour de Pise est penchée. - The Tower of Pisa is leaning.
  2. (chess) rook

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From Old French torner, tourner.

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tour m. (plural tours)

  1. turn, circumference
  2. go, turn

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From Latin tornus.

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tour m. (plural tours)

  1. lathe, potter's wheel
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