tour
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- 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 1Edit
From Old French tour, tourn, from the verb torner, tourner.
NounEdit
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
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VerbEdit
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.
TranslationsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Old French tor, French tour (“tower”)
NounEdit
tour (plural tours)
Etymology 3Edit
See toot.
VerbEdit
tour (third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured)
ReferencesEdit
- “tour”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
AnagramsEdit
BretonEdit
NounEdit
tour
- Hard mutation of dour.
DutchEdit
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PronunciationEdit
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NounEdit
tour m (plural tours, diminutive tourtje n)
SynonymsEdit
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Inherited from Old French tor, from Latin turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).
NounEdit
tour f (plural tours)
- tower
- La tour de Pise est penchée. ― The Tower of Pisa is leaning.
- (chess) rook
- apartment building
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Breton: tour
Etymology 2Edit
Deverbal Old French torner, tourner.
NounEdit
tour m (plural tours)
- turn, circumference
- go, turn
- walk, stroll
- round, stage (of a competition)
- trick (e.g. magic trick, card trick)
- ride
Derived termsEdit
- 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 d'abandon
- 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'horizon
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
tour m (plural tours)
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
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Further readingEdit
- “tour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “tour” in Dictionnaire Français en ligne Larousse.
AnagramsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old English tūr, tor, torr, from Latin turris.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tour (plural toures)
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “tǒur, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
PortugueseEdit
NounEdit
tour m (plural tours)
ScotsEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
tour (plural tours)
Etymology 2Edit
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
tour (plural tours)
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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 termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “tour”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
SwedishEdit
NounEdit
tour c
DeclensionEdit
Declension of tour | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | tour | touren | tourer | tourerna |
Genitive | tours | tourens | tourers | tourernas |