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See also: Tour and tóur

English

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Pronunciation

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.
  4. A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
    Metallica's tour of Europe
  5. (sports, chiefly cricket and rugby) A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
  6. (sports, cycling) A street and road race, frequently multiday.
  7. (sports) A set of competitions which make up a championship.
  8. (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; […]
  9. (graph theory) A closed trail.
  10. (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 ; nd by Robert Boulter ; 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,
  11. (obsolete) A turn; a revolution.
    the tours of the heavenly bodies
  12. (snooker) A circuit of snooker tournaments
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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.
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Etymology 2

From 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)

  1. (obsolete) To toot a horn.

References

Anagrams

Breton

Noun

tour

  1. Hard mutation of dour.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French tour.

Pronunciation

Noun

tour m (plural tours, diminutive tourtje n)

  1. 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)

  1. tower
    La tour de Pise est penchée. ― The Tower of Pisa is leaning.
  2. (chess) rook
  3. apartment building
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Breton: tour
  • → Russian: тура́ (turá)
  • → Ukrainian: тура́ (turá)

Etymology 2

Deverbal Old French torner, tourner. Related to Etymology 3.

Noun

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)
    La magicienne a épaté le public avec ses tours.
    The magician wowed the audience with her tricks.
  6. ride
  7. lap (of a race)
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 3

From Latin tornus. Related to Etymology 2.

Noun

tour m (plural tours)

  1. lathe
  2. potter’s wheel
Derived terms

See also

Chess pieces in French · pièces d’échecs (layout · text)
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Further reading

Anagrams

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

tour (plural toures)

  1. tower

Descendants

References

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French tour.

Pronunciation

 
 

Noun

tour m (plural tours)

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

Further reading

Scots

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

tour (plural tours)

  1. tour

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Noun

tour (plural tours)

  1. tower

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French tour.

Pronunciation

Noun

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

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Derived terms

Further reading

Swedish

Noun

tour c

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

Declension

Declension of tour
nominative genitive
singular indefinite tour tours
definite touren tourens
plural indefinite tourer tourers
definite tourerna tourernas

References

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