retour
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[edit]Noun
[edit]retour (plural retours)
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[edit]retour (third-person singular simple present retours, present participle retouring, simple past and past participle retoured)
- (transitive) To tour again.
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[edit]Adverb
[edit]retour
- back whence one came
Noun
[edit]retour n (plural retouren, diminutive retourtje n)
- return
- return ticket for a train
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[edit]- → Indonesian: retur
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Deverbal from retourner (“to return”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ʁə.tuʁ/
Audio: (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Somain)): (file) - Rhymes: -uʁ
Noun
[edit]retour m (plural retours)
- return
- Le retour de Zidane redonne de l'élan aux Bleus
- The return of Zidane gives the Blues [French national football team] back their spirits.
- second coming
- feedback (critical assessment of process or activity)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “retour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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[edit]retour
- (regional, especially Austria, Switzerland, or dated) back
- Synonym: zurück
- 1914, Annette Kolb, Wege und Umwege:
- Bei ihnen reisen jedoch die Vermögenden wie die Windsbraut durch ganz Italien und wieder retour, haben Italien und nichts von der Welt gesehen, und ein anderes Mal fahren sie mit derselben Eile nach Paris, sehen mit diebischer Freude alle Cafés chantants und wissen viel von den Boulevards, aber nichts von den Franzosen.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1918, Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan[1], Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, page 397:
- Wie komm’ ich dazu, daß ich mich soll zwei Tage im Hotel mopsen und dann gleich wieder retour, bloß wegen –.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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