tour
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation)
- IPA(key): (without the pour–poor merger) /tʊə/, (pour–poor merger) /tɔː/
- (US, Canada)
- IPA(key): (pour–poor merger) /tɔɹ/; (without the pour–poor merger) /tʊɚ/, /tʊɹ/
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /tʉːɹ/
- (Ireland) IPA(key): /tuːɹ/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /tʉːə/
Audio (General Australian); /tʉːə/: (file)
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ)
- Homophones: ; tore (pour–poor merger), tor (pour–poor merger, horse–hoarse merger); taw (pour–poor merger, horse–hoarse merger, non-rhotic)
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], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →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
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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]From 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.
Dutch
[edit]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]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)
- La magicienne a épaté le public avec ses tours.
- The magician wowed the audience with her tricks.
- 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
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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
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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 |
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