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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old French tour , tourn , from the verb torner , tourner .
Noun
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 , →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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Translations
journey
Arabic: رِحْلَة f ( riḥla ) , جَوْلَة f ( jawla )
Egyptian Arabic: جولة m ( gawla )
Armenian: շրջագայություն (hy) ( šrǰagayutʻyun ) , ճանապարհորդություն (hy) ( čanaparhordutʻyun )
Bulgarian: обиколка (bg) f ( obikolka )
Catalan: recorregut (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 旅游 (zh) ( lǚyóu ) , 旅行 (zh) ( lǚxíng ) , 旅途 (zh) ( lǚtú ) , 旅程 (zh) ( lǚchéng )
Danish: tur (da) c , rundtur c
Dutch: excursie (nl) , reis (nl) f , toer (nl) m
Finnish: matka (fi) , kiertoajelu (fi) , kiertokäynti , ekskursio (fi)
French: excursion (fr) m , voyage (fr) m , tournée (fr) f
German: Tour (de) f , Reise (de) f
Greek: περιοδεία (el) f ( periodeía )
Hebrew: סיור m ( siur ) , טיול (he) m ( tiul )
Higaonon: soroy
Ido: turo (io)
Indonesian: tur (id)
Italian: viaggio (it)
Japanese: 旅行 (ja) ( ryokō ) , 旅 (ja) ( tabi ) , ツアー (ja) ( tsuā )
Korean: 여행(旅行) (ko) ( yeohaeng ) , 투어 ( tueo )
Luganda: okulambula
Mongolian: аялал (mn) ( ajalal )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tur (no) m , rundtur (no) m
Nynorsk: tur m , rundtur m
Portuguese: passeio (pt) m
Russian: путеше́ствие (ru) n ( putešéstvije ) , пое́здка (ru) f ( pojézdka ) , ( indeclinable ) турне́ (ru) n ( turnɛ́ )
Scottish Gaelic: cuairt f , turas m
Spanish: recorrido (es) m , tour (es) m
Thai: ทัวร์ (th) ( tuua )
Tibetan: འགྲུལ་བཞུད ( 'grul bzhud )
Turkish: gezi (tr) , gezinti (tr)
Vietnamese: du lịch (vi) (遊歷 ), lữ hành (vi) (旅行 )
journey through given list of places
cycling: multistage street and road race
graph theory: a closed trail
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Verb
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
Etymology 2
Old French tor , French tour ( “ tower ” )
Noun
tour (plural tours )
( 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 ) To toot a horn .
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Breton
Noun
tour
Hard mutation of dour .
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French tour .
Pronunciation
Noun
tour m (plural tours , diminutive tourtje n )
tour
Synonyms
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old French tor , from Latin turrem , from Ancient Greek τύρρις ( túrrhis ) , τύρσις ( túrsis ) .
Noun
tour f (plural tours )
tower
La tour de Pise est penchée. ― The Tower of Pisa is leaning.
( chess ) rook
apartment building
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Descendants
Etymology 2
Deverbal Old French torner , tourner . Related to Etymology 3.
Noun
tour m (plural tours )
turn , circumference
go , turn
walk , stroll
round , stage (of a competition)
trick (e.g. magic trick , card trick ) (Can we add an example for this sense?)
ride
Derived terms
Descendants
→ Russian: тура ( tura )
→ Spanish: tour
→ Turkish: tur
→ Ukrainian: тура ( tura )
Etymology 3
From Latin tornus . Related to Etymology 2.
Noun
tour m (plural tours )
lathe
potter ’s wheel
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Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English tūr , tor , torr , from Latin turris .
Pronunciation
Noun
tour (plural toures )
tower
Descendants
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Portuguese
Pronunciation
Noun
tour m (plural tours )
tour ( guided visit )
tour ( journey through a given list of places )
Scots
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
tour (plural tours )
tour
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
Noun
tour (plural tours )
tower
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French tour .
Pronunciation
Noun
tour m (plural tours )
tour , guided visit to a country, museum, etc.
Synonyms: viaje , visita , excursión
( 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
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Swedish
Noun
tour c
( sports ) a tour (chiefly in individual ball games)
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