tour de force
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French tour de force (“feat of strength”), circa 19th century.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tour de force (plural tours de force)
- A feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field.
- Now orbiting Earth, Gravity Probe B is a technological tour de force.
- 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 429:
- Much as I admire Wilson’s tour de force—I wish people would read it more and read about it less—my hackles have always risen at the entirely false suggestion that his book influenced mine.
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Translations edit
Feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field
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See also edit
Dutch edit
Noun edit
tour de force m (plural tours de force)
Synonyms edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Literally, “turn of strength”, or more loosely translated as “turn of force”.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tour de force m (plural tours de force)
Descendants edit
- → Dutch: krachttoer (calque)
German edit
Noun edit
tour de force f (genitive tour de force, plural tours de force)
- Alternative spelling of Tour de Force
Declension edit
Declension of tour de force [feminine]
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | eine | die | tour de force | die | tours de force |
| genitive | einer | der | tour de force | der | tours de force |
| dative | einer | der | tour de force | den | tours de force |
| accusative | eine | die | tour de force | die | tours de force |