Tour

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ), -ÊŠÉ™(ɹ)
• Homophones: tore some accents

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

Full definition of tour

Noun

1. A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
2. A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
3. A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
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. (obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
• MiltonThe bird of Jove stooped from his airy tour.
7. (obsolete) A turn; a revolution.the tours of the heavenly bodies

Derived terms

• tour de force
• tour d'horizon

Verb

1. (intransitive) To make a journey; as, to tour throughout a country.
2. (transitive) To make a circuit of a place

Old French tor, French tour ("tower")

Noun

1. (dated) A tower.

See toot.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To toot a horn.

Anagrams

• rout
• trou