tour de force
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French tour de force (“feat of strength”), circa 19th century.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌtuɹ.dəˈfoɹs/, /ˌtuɹ.dəˈfɔɹs/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
tour de force (plural tours de force)
- A feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field.
- Now orbiting Earth, Gravity Probe B is a technological tour de force.
- 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 429:
- Much as I admire Wilson’s tour de force—I wish people would read it more and read about it less—my hackles have always risen at the entirely false suggestion that his book influenced mine.
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Translations
Feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field
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See also
Dutch
Synonyms
French
Etymology
Literally, “turn of strength”, or more loosely translated as “turn of force”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tuʁ də fɔʁs/
Audio (file)
Descendants
- → Dutch: krachttoer (calque)
German
Noun
tour de force f (genitive tour de force, plural tours de force)
- Alternative spelling of Tour de Force
Declension
Declension of tour de force [feminine]
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | eine | die | tour de force | die | tours de force |
| genitive | einer | der | tour de force | der | tours de force |
| dative | einer | der | tour de force | den | tours de force |
| accusative | eine | die | tour de force | die | tours de force |
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