tour
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /tɔː(ɹ)/, /tʊə(ɹ)/, /tɝ/, /tuːɹ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ)
- Homophone: tore (pour-poor merger)
Etymology 1 edit
From Old French tour, tourn, from the verb torner, tourner.
Noun edit
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.
- (sports, cycling) A street and road race, frequently multiday.
- (sports) A set of competitions which make up a championship.
- (military) A tour of duty.
- 2022 September 21, Carly Olson, Dan Bilefsky, “Ten prisoners, including Americans, have been released as part of a Russia-Ukraine exchange, Saudi Arabia says.”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- Among those released were two Americans who had been held captive for more than three months: Alex Drueke, a former U.S. Army staff sergeant who served two tours in Iraq, according to his aunt, Dianna Shaw; […]
- (graph theory) A closed trail.
- (obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- The Bird of Jove, stoopt from his aerie tour,
- (obsolete) A turn; a revolution.
- the tours of the heavenly bodies
- 1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation:
- It [blood] onward springs, and makes the wondrous tour
- (snooker) A circuit of snooker tournaments
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
- abortion tour
- audio tour
- book tour
- Cook's tour
- duck tour
- fifty-cent tour
- grand tour
- knight's tour
- mystery tour
- nickel tour
- on tour
- package tour
- pre-tour
- railtour, rail tour
- starlight tour
- ten-cent tour
- Tiki tour
- tiki-tour
- tiki tour
- touch tour
- Tourane
- tour bus
- tour-goer
- tourism
- tourist
- tour match
- tour mate
- tour operator
- what happens on tour stays on tour
- whistlestop tour
Related terms edit
Translations edit
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Verb edit
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 edit
Etymology 2 edit
Old French tor, French tour (“tower”)
Noun edit
tour (plural tours)
Etymology 3 edit
See toot.
Verb edit
tour (third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured)
References edit
- “tour”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Breton edit
Noun edit
tour
- Hard mutation of dour.
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Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
tour m (plural tours, diminutive tourtje n)
Synonyms edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old French tor, from Latin turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).
Noun edit
tour f (plural tours)
- tower
- La tour de Pise est penchée. ― The Tower of Pisa is leaning.
- (chess) rook
- apartment building
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Breton: tour
Etymology 2 edit
Deverbal Old French torner, tourner. Related to Etymology 3.
Noun edit
tour m (plural tours)
- turn, circumference
- go, turn
- walk, stroll
- round, stage (of a competition)
- trick (e.g. magic trick, card trick) (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- ride
Derived terms edit
- à double tour
- à tour de bras
- à tour de rôle
- au quart de tour
- avoir plus d’un tour dans son sac
- et le tour est joué
- faire le tour du propriétaire
- faire un tour
- monter dans les tours
- passer son tour
- tour à tour
- tour de forage
- Tour de France
- tour de magie
- tour de parole
- tour de passe-passe
- tour de poitrine
- tour de reins
- tour de scrutin
- tour de table
- tour de taille
- tour d’abandon
- tour d’horizon
- tour en l’air
Descendants edit
Etymology 3 edit
From Latin tornus. Related to Etymology 2.
Noun edit
tour m (plural tours)
Derived terms edit
See also edit
Chess pieces in French · pièces d’échecs (layout · text) | |||||
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roi | dame | tour | fou | cavalier | pion |
Further reading edit
- “tour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “tour” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old English tūr, tor, torr, from Latin turris.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tour (plural toures)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “tǒur, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tour m (plural tours)
Scots edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
tour (plural tours)
Etymology 2 edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
tour (plural tours)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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
- Synonym: gira
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “tour”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Noun edit
tour c
Declension edit
Declension of tour | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | tour | touren | tourer | tourerna |
Genitive | tours | tourens | tourers | tourernas |