tour
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
cycling
games
government
graph-theory
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
military
politics
rugby
sciences
snooker
sports
war
Etymology: From Old French tour, tourn, from the verb torner, tourner.
Inflected forms:
form: tours
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tours
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: touring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: toured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: toured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
pos: noun
examples: On our last holiday to Spain we took a tour of the wine-growing regions.
gloss: A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
pos: noun
examples: On the company's website, you can take a virtual tour of the headquarters.
gloss: A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
pos: noun
examples: Metallica's tour of Europe
gloss: A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
pos: noun
gloss: A street and road race, frequently multiday.
pos: noun
gloss: A set of competitions which make up a championship.
pos: noun
gloss: A tour of duty.
pos: noun
examples: 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; […]
gloss: A closed trail.
pos: noun
gloss: A going round; a circuit.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The Bird of Jove, stoopt from his aerie tour,
gloss: A turn; a revolution.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: the tours of the heavenly bodies
It [blood] onward springs, and makes the wondrous tour
gloss: A circuit of snooker tournaments
pos: noun
gloss: To make a journey.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The Rolling Stones were still touring when they were in their seventies.
gloss: To make a circuit of a place.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
Derived words: abortion tour
audio tour
avitour
book tour
contour
Cook's tour
duck tour
ecotour
Eulerian tour
fifty-cent tour
grand tour
knight's tour
megatour
midtour
minitour
mystery tour
nickel tour
on tour
package tour
pre-tour
pretour
railtour
rail tour
starlight tour
study tour
subtour
ten-cent tour
Tiki tour
tiki-tour
tiki tour
touch tour
tourabout
Tourane
tour bus
tour-goer
tourgoer
tour group
tour guide
tourism
tourist
tour match
tourmate
tour mate
tour operator
tourscape
what happens on tour stays on tour
whistlestop tour
retour
overtour
tourable
untoured
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: رِحْلَة
roman: riḥla
lang: Arabic
word: جَوْلَة
roman: jawla
lang: Arabic
word: جولة
roman: gawla
lang: Armenian
word: շրջագայություն
roman: šrǰagayutʻyun
lang: Armenian
word: ճանապարհորդություն
roman: čanaparhordutʻyun
lang: Bulgarian
word: обико́лка
roman: obikólka
lang: Catalan
word: recorregut
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 旅游
roman: lǚyóu
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 旅行
roman: lǚxíng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 旅途
roman: lǚtú
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 旅程
roman: lǚchéng
lang: Danish
word: tur
lang: Danish
word: rundtur
lang: Dutch
word: excursie
lang: Dutch
word: reis
lang: Dutch
word: toer
lang: Finnish
word: matka
lang: Finnish
word: kiertoajelu
lang: Finnish
word: kiertokäynti
lang: Finnish
word: ekskursio
lang: French
word: excursion
lang: French
word: voyage
lang: French
word: tournée
lang: German
word: Tour
lang: German
word: Reise
lang: Greek
word: περιοδεία
roman: periodeía
lang: Hebrew
word: סיור
roman: siyúr
lang: Hebrew
word: טיול
roman: tiyúl
lang: Hebrew
word: תִּיּוּר
roman: tiyúr
lang: Higaonon
word: soroy
lang: Ido
word: turo
lang: Indonesian
word: tur
lang: Italian
word: viaggio
lang: Japanese
word: 旅行
roman: ryokō
lang: Japanese
word: 旅
roman: tabi
lang: Japanese
word: ツアー
roman: tsuā
lang: Korean
word: 여행
roman: yeohaeng
lang: Korean
word: 투어
roman: tueo
lang: Luganda
word: okulambula
lang: Mongolian
word: аялал
roman: ajalal
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: tur
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: rundtur
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: tur
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: rundtur
lang: Portuguese
word: passeio
lang: Russian
word: путеше́ствие
roman: putešéstvije
lang: Russian
word: пое́здка
roman: pojézdka
lang: Russian
word: турне́
roman: turnɛ́
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cuairt
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: turas
lang: Spanish
word: recorrido
lang: Spanish
word: tour
lang: Spanish
word: tournée (turné)
lang: Tamil
word: சுற்றுலா
roman: cuṟṟulā
lang: Thai
word: ทัวร์
roman: tuua
lang: Tibetan
word: འགྲུལ་བཞུད
roman: 'grul bzhud
lang: Turkish
word: gezi
lang: Turkish
word: gezinti
lang: Vietnamese
word: du lịch
lang: Vietnamese
word: lữ hành