Definitions and meaning of tour
tour
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation)
- (without the pour–poor merger) IPA(key): /tʊə(ɹ)/
- (pour–poor merger) IPA(key): /tɔː(ɹ)/
- (US, Canada)
- IPA(key): (pour–poor merger) /tɔɹ/; (without the pour–poor merger) /tʊɚ/, /tʊɹ/
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /tʉːɹ/
- (Ireland) IPA(key): /tuːɹ/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /tʉːə/
- 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.
- A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
- A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
- (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.
- (graph theory) A closed trail.
- (obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
- (obsolete) A turn; a revolution.
- (snooker) A circuit of snooker tournaments
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
tour (third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured)
- (intransitive) To make a journey
- (transitive) To make a circuit of a place
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
Breton
Noun
tour
- Hard mutation of dour.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French tour.
Pronunciation
Noun
tour m (plural tours, diminutive tourtje n)
- tour
Synonyms
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tuʁ/
- ("un tour")
- 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
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)
- ride
- lap (of a race)
Derived terms
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
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
Middle English
Alternative forms
- thour, tor, tore, toure, towere, towour, tur
Etymology
From Old English tūr, tor, torr, from Latin turris.
Pronunciation
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
Noun
tour m (plural tours)
- tour (guided visit)
- tour (journey through a given list of places)
Related terms
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
Etymology 1
Noun
tour (plural tours)
- tour
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
Noun
tour (plural tours)
- tower
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French tour.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /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
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)
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