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All 4 letters words made out of tour

tour otur tuor utor outr uotr toru otru trou rtou ortu rotu turo utro truo rtuo urto ruto ourt uort orut rout urot ruot

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word tour. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in tour.

Definitions and meaning of tour

tour

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔː(ɹ)/, /tʊə(ɹ)/, /tɝ/, /tuːɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ)
• Homophone: tore (pour-poor merger)

Etymology 1

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

Noun

tour (plural tours)

1. A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.

2. A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.

4. A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.

5. (sports, chiefly cricket and rugby) A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
6. (sports, cycling) A street and road race, frequently multiday.
7. (sports) A set of competitions which make up a championship.
8. (military) A tour of duty.
9. (graph theory) A closed trail.
10. (obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
11. (obsolete) A turn; a revolution.
12. (snooker) A circuit of snooker tournaments

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• study tour
• tour guide

Translations

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To make a journey

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

Translations

Etymology 2

Old French tor, French tour (“tower”)

Noun

tour (plural tours)

1. (dated) A tower.

Etymology 3

See toot.

Verb

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

1. (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

1. Hard mutation of dour.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French tour.

Pronunciation

Noun

tour m (plural tours, diminutive tourtje n)

1. tour

Synonyms

• rondreis

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuʁ/
• Rhymes: -uʁ

Etymology 1

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

Noun

tour f (plural tours)

1. tower

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

2. (chess) rook
3. apartment building

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Breton: tour

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

Descendants

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

Etymology 3

From Latin tornus. Related to Etymology 2.

Noun

tour m (plural tours)

1. lathe
2. potter’s wheel

Derived terms

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

See also

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^(key): /tuːr/

Noun

tour (plural toures)

1. 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

Pronunciation

Noun

tour m (plural tours)

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

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tur/

Etymology 1

Noun

tour (plural tours)

1. tour

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• towr

Noun

tour (plural tours)

1. tower

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French tour.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Swedish

Noun

tour c

1. (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)

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