Tour
name, noun, verb ·Common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 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."
- 1 Ellipsis of Tour de France. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Example
More examples"Is there a tour guide available?"
Etymology
From Old French tour, tourn, from the verb torner, tourner.
From Old French tor, French tour (“tower”).
See toot.