tour

• IPA^(key): /tɔː(ɹ)/, /tʊə(ɹ)/, /tɝ/, /tuːɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ)
• Homophone: tore (pour-poor merger)

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

tour (plural tours)

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. (sports, chiefly cricket and rugby) A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
5. (sports, cycling) A street and road race, frequently multiday.
6. (sports) A set of competitions which make up a championship.
7. (military) A tour of duty.
   • 2022 September 21, Carly Olson, Dan Bilefsky, “Ten prisoners, including Americans, have been released as part of a Russia-Ukraine exchange, Saudi Arabia says.”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     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. (graph theory) A closed trail.
9. (obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     The Bird of Jove, stoopt from his aerie tour,

10. (obsolete) A turn; a revolution.

    the tours of the heavenly bodies

    • 1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation:

      It [blood] onward springs, and makes the wondrous tour

11. (snooker) A circuit of snooker tournaments

• study tour
• tour guide

tour (third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured)

1. (intransitive) To make a journey

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

2. (transitive) To make a circuit of a place

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

Old French tor, French tour (“tower”)

tour (plural tours)

1. (dated) A tower.

See toot.

tour (third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured)

1. (obsolete) To toot a horn.

• “tour”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• rout, trou

tour

1. Hard mutation of dour.

Borrowed from French tour.

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tour m (plural tours, diminutive tourtje n)

1. tour

• rondreis

• IPA^(key): /tuʁ/

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• Rhymes: -uʁ

Inherited from Old French tor, from Latin turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).

tour f (plural tours)

1. tower

   La tour de Pise est penchée. ― The Tower of Pisa is leaning.

2. (chess) rook
3. apartment building

• → Breton: tour

Deverbal Old French torner, tourner. Related to Etymology 3.

tour m (plural tours)

1. turn, circumference
2. go, turn
3. walk, stroll
4. round, stage (of a competition)
5. trick (e.g. magic trick, card trick) (Can we add an example for this sense?)
6. ride

• → Russian: тура (tura)
• → Spanish: tour
• → Turkish: tur
• → Ukrainian: тура (tura)

From Latin tornus. Related to Etymology 2.

tour m (plural tours)

1. lathe
2. potter’s wheel

• tour de potier
• tour d’abandon
• tour du poteau

• “tour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “tour” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.

• trou

• thour, tor, tore, toure, towere, towour, tur

From Old English tūr, tor, torr, from Latin turris.

• IPA^(key): /tuːr/

tour (plural toures)

1. tower

• English: tower (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: tour, towr
• Yola: toweare

• “tǒur, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

tour m (plural tours)

1. tour (guided visit)
2. tour (journey through a given list of places)

• IPA^(key): /tur/

tour (plural tours)

1. tour

• towr

tour (plural tours)

1. tower

Borrowed from French tour.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuɾ/ [ˈt̪uɾ]
• Rhymes: -uɾ

tour m (plural tours)

1. tour, guided visit to a country, museum, etc.

   Synonyms: viaje, visita, excursión

2. (sports) tour, a trip to another country to play matches
3. (music) tour, a trip to other countries undertaken by a singer or musician

   Synonym: gira

• “tour”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

tour c

1. (sports) a tour (chiefly in individual ball games)

• tour in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tour in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tour in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)