tour

See also: Tour and tóur

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɔː(ɹ)/, /tʊə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (US)(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)

  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. (military) A tour of duty.
  6. (graph theory) A closed trail.
  7. (obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
    • Milton
      The bird of Jove stooped from his airy tour.
  8. (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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Verb

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.
Translations

Etymology 2

Old French tor, French tour (“tower”)

Noun

tour (plural tours)

  1. (dated) A tower.

Etymology 3

See toot.

Verb

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

  1. To toot a horn.

References

  • tour in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Breton

Noun

tour

  1. Hard mutation of dour.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French tour.

Pronunciation

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Noun

tour m (plural tours, diminutive tourtje n)

  1. tour

Synonyms

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tuʁ/
  • tour(file)

Etymology 1

From Old French tor, from Latin turris

Noun

tour f (plural tours)

  1. tower
    La tour de Pise est penchée. ― The Tower of Pisa is leaning.
  2. (chess) rook

Etymology 2

From Old French torner, tourner.

Noun

tour m (plural tours)

  1. turn, circumference
  2. go, turn
  3. walk, stroll
  4. round, stage (of a competition)

Etymology 3

From Latin tornus.

Noun

tour m (plural tours)

  1. lathe, potter’s wheel

Anagrams

See also

Chess pieces in French · pièces d'échecs (layout · text)
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roi dame tour fou cavalier pion

Further reading

Portuguese

Noun

tour m (plural tours)

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

Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tur/

Etymology 1

Noun

tour (plural tours)

  1. tour

Etymology 2

Noun

tour (plural tours)

  1. tower

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tuɾ/

Noun

tour m (plural tours)

  1. tour, guided visit to a country, museum, etc.
  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

Synonyms

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