tour

nounverbnounverbcommon in dialogue

Scotland//tʉːɹ//
//tɔː(ɹ)//
//tʊə(ɹ)//
//tuːɐ//

A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.

noun

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
A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
5
A street and road race, frequently multiday.
6
A set of competitions which make up a championship.
7
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; […]
8
A closed trail.
9
obsoleteA going round; a circuit.
The Bird of Jove, stoopt from his aerie tour,
10
obsoleteA turn; a revolution.
the tours of the heavenly bodies
It [blood] onward springs, and makes the wondrous tour
11
A circuit of snooker tournaments

Etymology

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

verb

1
To make a journey.
The Rolling Stones were still touring when they were in their seventies.
2
To make a circuit of a place.
The circuses have been touring Europe for the last few weeks.
Longtime Brooklynites, the pair had been casually searching for an upstate weekend retreat when they toured a house on a 3-acre parcel of land in Amenia, New York.

noun

1
datedA tower.

Etymology

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

verb

1
obsoleteTo toot a horn.

Etymology

See toot.

Forms

plural: tours
past tense: toured
past participle: toured
present participle: touring
third person singular: tours

touchy · Extremely sensitive or volatile; easily disturbed to the…tough · Of a material, strong and resilient; sturdy.Tough · A surname.

tour · A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.

touring · Working for a short time in different places.tourism · The act of travelling or sightseeing, particularly away from…tourist · Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business; a…

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.