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Tour
Definitions
- 1 Ellipsis of Tour de France. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 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 tower. dated
- 3 a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area wordnet
- 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 a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) wordnet
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- 6 A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
"Metallica's tour of Europe"
- 7 a period of time spent in military service wordnet
- 8 A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
- 9 A street and road race, frequently multiday.
- 10 A set of competitions which make up a championship.
- 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; […]"
- 12 A closed trail.
- 13 A going round; a circuit. obsolete
"The Bird of Jove, stoopt from his aerie tour,"
- 14 A turn; a revolution. obsolete
"the tours of the heavenly bodies"
- 15 A circuit of snooker tournaments
- 1 To make a journey intransitive
"The Rolling Stones were still touring when they were in their seventies."
- 2 To toot a horn. obsolete
- 3 make a tour of a certain place wordnet
- 4 To make a circuit of a place transitive
"The circuses have been touring Europe for the last few weeks."
Etymology
From Old French tour, tourn, from the verb torner, tourner.
From Old French tour, tourn, from the verb torner, tourner.
From Old French tor, French tour (“tower”).
See toot.
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