tour
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɔː(ɹ)/, /tʊə(ɹ)/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ)
- Homophone: tore (pour-poor merger)
Etymology 1
From Old French tour, tourn, from the verb torner, tourner.
Noun
tour (plural tours)
- A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
- On our last holiday to Spain we took a tour of the wine-growing regions.
- A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
- On the company's website, you can take a virtual tour of the headquarters.
- A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
- Metallica's tour of Europe
- (sports, chiefly cricket and rugby) A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
- (military) A tour of duty.
- (graph theory) A closed trail.
- (obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- The bird of Jove stooped from his airy tour.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (obsolete) A turn; a revolution.
- the tours of the heavenly bodies
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Blackmore to this entry?)
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Translations
journey
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guided visit
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journey through given list of places
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graph theory: a closed trail
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Verb
tour (third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured)
- (intransitive) To make a journey
- The Rolling Stones were still touring when they were in their seventies.
- (transitive) To make a circuit of a place
- The circuses have been touring Europe for the last few weeks.
Translations
to make a journey
to make a circuit
Etymology 2
Old French tor, French tour (“tower”)
Noun
tour (plural tours)
Etymology 3
See toot.
Verb
tour (third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured) (obsolete)
References
- “tour”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Breton
Noun
tour
- Hard mutation of dour.
Dutch
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Audio (file)
Noun
tour m (plural tours, diminutive tourtje n)
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French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old French tor, from Latin turris, turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).
Noun
tour f (plural tours)
- tower
- La tour de Pise est penchée. ― The Tower of Pisa is leaning.
- (chess) rook
- apartment building
Descendants
Etymology 2
Deverbal Old French torner, tourner.
Noun
tour m (plural tours)
- turn, circumference
- go, turn
- walk, stroll
- round, stage (of a competition)
- trick (e.g. magic trick, card trick)
- ride
Etymology 3
Noun
tour m (plural tours)
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Anagrams
See also
Chess pieces in French · pièces d’échecs (layout · text) | |||||
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roi | dame | tour | fou | cavalier | pion |
Further reading
- “tour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
Noun
tour m (plural s)
Scots
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
tour (plural tours)
Etymology 2
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Noun
tour (plural tours)
Spanish
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Noun
tour m (plural tours)
- tour, guided visit to a country, museum, etc.
- (sports) tour, a trip to another country to play matches
- (music) tour, a trip to other countries undertaken by a singer or musician
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