# tour
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation)
** IPA: (without the pour–poor merger) /tʊə/, (pour–poor merger) /tɔː/
* (US, Canada)
** IPA: (pour–poor merger) /tɔɹ/; (without the pour–poor merger) /tʊɚ/, /tʊɹ/
*** Audio (US); /tʊɚ/:(file)
* (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /tʉːɹ/
* (Ireland) IPA: /tuːɹ/
* (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /tʉːə/
** Audio (General Australian); /tʉːə/:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ)
* Homophones: ; tore (pour–poor merger), tor (pour–poor merger, horse–hoarse merger); taw (pour–poor merger, horse–hoarse merger, non-rhotic)

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

tour (plural tours)
* A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
    On our last holiday to Spain we took a tour of the wine-growing regions.
* A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
    On the company's website, you can take a virtual tour of the headquarters.
* A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
    Metallica's tour of Europe
* (sports, chiefly cricket and rugby) A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
* (sports, cycling) A street and road race, frequently multiday.
* (sports) A set of competitions which make up a championship.
* (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; […]
* (graph theory) A closed trail.
* (obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:The Bird of Jove, stoopt from his aerie tour,
* (obsolete) A turn; a revolution.
    the tours of the heavenly bodies
** 1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation:It [blood] onward springs, and makes the wondrous tour
* (snooker) A circuit of snooker tournaments

##### Hyponyms

* Grand Tour
* guided tour
* tour de force
* tour d'horizon
* whirlwind tour

##### Derived terms

* abortion tour
* audio tour
* book tour
* Cook's tour
* duck tour
* Eulerian tour
* fifty-cent tour
* grand tour
* knight's tour
* mystery tour
* nickel tour
* on tour
* package tour
* pre-tour
* railtour, rail tour
* starlight tour
* ten-cent tour
* tiki-tour
* Tiki tour
* tiki tour
* touch tour
* Tourane
* tour bus
* tour-goer
* tourism
* tourist
* tour match
* tour mate
* tour operator
* what happens on tour stays on tour
* whistlestop tour

##### Related terms

* study tour
* tour guide

##### Translations

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#### Verb

tour (third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured)
* (intransitive) To make a journey
    The Rolling Stones were still touring when they were in their seventies.
* (transitive) To make a circuit of a place
    The circuses have been touring Europe for the last few weeks.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

tour (plural tours)
* (dated) A tower.

### Etymology 3

See toot.

#### Verb

tour (third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured)
* (obsolete) To toot a horn.

#### References

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

### Anagrams

* rout, trou

## Breton
### Noun

tour
* Hard mutation of dour.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French tour.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tour m (plural tours, diminutive tourtje n)
* tour

#### Synonyms

* rondreis

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tuʁ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uʁ

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

tour f (plural tours)
* tower
    La tour de Pise est penchée. ― The Tower of Pisa is leaning.
* (chess) rook
* apartment building

##### Derived terms

* tour CN
* tour de Babel
* tour de contrôle
* tour de forage
* tour de guet
* tour de siège
* tour d’ivoire
* tour Eiffel
* tourelle

##### Descendants

* → Breton: tour
* → Russian: тура́ (turá)
* → Ukrainian: тура́ (turá)

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

tour m (plural tours)
* turn, circumference
* go, turn
* walk, stroll
* round, stage (of a competition)
* trick (e.g. magic trick, card trick)
    La magicienne a épaté le public avec ses tours.The magician wowed the audience with her tricks.
* ride
* lap (of a race)

##### Derived terms

* à double tour
* à tour de bras
* à tour de rôle
* au quart de tour
* avoir plus d’un tour dans son sac
* et le tour est joué
* faire le tour du propriétaire
* faire un tour
* monter dans les tours
* passer son tour
* tour à tour
* tour de forage
* Tour de France
* tour de magie
* tour de parole
* tour de passe-passe
* tour de poitrine
* tour de reins
* tour de scrutin
* tour de table
* tour de taille
* tour d’abandon
* tour d’horizon
* tour en l’air

##### Descendants

* → Russian: тур (tur)
* → Spanish: tour
* → Turkish: tur
* → Ukrainian: тур (tur)

### Etymology 3

From Latin tornus. Related to Etymology 2.

#### Noun

tour m (plural tours)
* lathe
* potter’s wheel

##### Derived terms

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

### See also

Chess pieces in French · pièces d’échecs (layout · text) :
| roi | dame | tour | fou | cavalier | pion |

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* trou

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tuːr/

### Noun

tour (plural toures)
* tower

#### Descendants

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

#### References

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

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French tour.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtuʁ/ [ˈtuh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtuʁ/ [ˈtuh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈtuɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈtuʁ/ [ˈtuχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈtuɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈtuɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈtuɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ˈtu.ɾi/

### Noun

tour m (plural tours)
* tour (guided visit)
* tour (journey through a given list of places)

#### Related terms

* turnê

### Further reading

* “tour”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “tour”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Scots
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tur/

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

tour (plural tours)
* tour

### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* towr

#### Noun

tour (plural tours)
* tower

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French tour.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtuɾ/ [ˈt̪uɾ]
* Rhymes: -uɾ

### Noun

tour m (plural tours)
* tour, guided visit to a country, museum, etc.
    Synonyms: viaje, visita, excursión
* (sports) tour, a trip to another country to play matches
* (music) tour, a trip to other countries undertaken by a singer or musician
    Synonym: gira

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

#### Derived terms

* Tour de Francia

### Further reading

* “tour”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Noun

tour c
* (sports) a tour (chiefly in individual ball games)

#### Declension
### References

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