See also: Tour and tóur

EnglishEdit

 
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Etymology 1Edit

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

NounEdit

tour (plural tours)

  1. A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
    On our last holiday to Spain we took a tour of the wine-growing regions.
  2. A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
    On the company's website, you can take a virtual tour of the headquarters.
  3. A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
    Metallica's tour of Europe
  4. (sports, chiefly cricket and rugby) A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
  5. (sports, cycling) A street and road race, frequently multiday.
  6. (sports) A set of competitions which make up a championship.
  7. (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; []
  8. (graph theory) A closed trail.
  9. (obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
  10. (obsolete) A turn; a revolution.
    the tours of the heavenly bodies
    • 1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation:
      It [blood] onward springs, and makes the wondrous tour
  11. (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)

  1. (intransitive) To make a journey
    The Rolling Stones were still touring when they were in their seventies.
  2. (transitive) To make a circuit of a place
    The circuses have been touring Europe for the last few weeks.
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Etymology 2Edit

Old French tor, French tour (tower)

NounEdit

tour (plural tours)

  1. (dated) A tower.

Etymology 3Edit

See toot.

VerbEdit

tour (third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured)

  1. (obsolete) To toot a horn.

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BretonEdit

NounEdit

tour

  1. Hard mutation of dour.

DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French tour.

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NounEdit

tour m (plural tours, diminutive tourtje n)

  1. tour

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Inherited from Old French tor, from Latin turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).

NounEdit

tour f (plural tours)

  1. tower
    La tour de Pise est penchée.The Tower of Pisa is leaning.
  2. (chess) rook
  3. apartment building
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  • Breton: tour

Etymology 2Edit

Deverbal Old French torner, tourner.

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tour m (plural tours)

  1. turn, circumference
  2. go, turn
  3. walk, stroll
  4. round, stage (of a competition)
  5. trick (e.g. magic trick, card trick)
  6. ride
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Etymology 3Edit

From Latin tornus.

NounEdit

tour m (plural tours)

  1. lathe
  2. potter’s wheel
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Chess pieces in French · pièces d'échecs (layout · text)
           
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EtymologyEdit

From Old English tūr, tor, torr, from Latin turris.

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NounEdit

tour (plural toures)

  1. tower

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NounEdit

tour m (plural tours)

  1. tour (guided visit)
  2. tour (journey through a given list of places)

ScotsEdit

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Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

tour (plural tours)

  1. tour

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NounEdit

tour (plural tours)

  1. tower

SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French tour.

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NounEdit

tour m (plural tours)

  1. tour, guided visit to a country, museum, etc.
    Synonyms: viaje, visita, excursión
  2. (sports) tour, a trip to another country to play matches
  3. (music) tour, a trip to other countries undertaken by a singer or musician
    Synonym: gira

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tour c

  1. (sports) a tour (chiefly in individual ball games)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of tour 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tour touren tourer tourerna
Genitive tours tourens tourers tourernas

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