Tour

//tɔː(ɹ)// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Ellipsis of Tour de France. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    A tower. dated
  3. 3
    a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area wordnet
  4. 4
    A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.

    "On the company's website, you can take a virtual tour of the headquarters."

  5. 5
    a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) wordnet
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  1. 6
    A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.

    "Metallica's tour of Europe"

  2. 7
    a period of time spent in military service wordnet
  3. 8
    A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
  4. 9
    A street and road race, frequently multiday.
  5. 10
    A set of competitions which make up a championship.
  6. 11
    A tour of duty.

    "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; […]"

  7. 12
    A closed trail.
  8. 13
    A going round; a circuit. obsolete

    "The Bird of Jove, stoopt from his aerie tour,"

  9. 14
    A turn; a revolution. obsolete

    "the tours of the heavenly bodies"

  10. 15
    A circuit of snooker tournaments
Verb
  1. 1
    To make a journey intransitive

    "The Rolling Stones were still touring when they were in their seventies."

  2. 2
    To toot a horn. obsolete
  3. 3
    make a tour of a certain place wordnet
  4. 4
    To make a circuit of a place transitive

    "The circuses have been touring Europe for the last few weeks."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

From Old French tor, French tour (“tower”).

Etymology 4

See toot.

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