tour

• IPA^(key): /tɔː(ɹ)/, /tʊə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ)
• Homophone: tore (pour-poor merger)

From Old French tour, tourn, from the verb torner, tourner.

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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John 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?)

• tour guide

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.

Old French tor, French tour (“tower”)

tour (plural tours)

1. (dated) A tower.

See toot.

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

1. To toot a horn.

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

• rout, trou

tour

1. Hard mutation of dour.

Borrowed from French tour.

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tour m (plural tours, diminutive tourtje n)

1. tour

• rondreis

• IPA^(key): /tuʁ/

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• Rhymes: -uʁ

From Old French tor, from Latin turris, turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).

tour f (plural tours)

1. tower

   La tour de Pise est penchée. ― The Tower of Pisa is leaning.

2. (chess) rook

• → Breton: tour
• → Russian: тура (tura)
• → Ukrainian: тура (tura)

Deverbal Old French torner, tourner.

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)

From Latin tornus.

tour m (plural tours)

1. lathe, potter’s wheel

• trou

• “tour” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

tour m (plural tours)

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

• IPA^(key): /tur/

tour (plural tours)

1. tour

• towr

tour (plural tours)

1. tower

• IPA^(key): /tuɾ/

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

• (visit to a place): viaje, visita, excursión
• (trip by a musician): gira