tour

noun, verb — 15 senses

tour

noun

/tɔː(ɹ)/ · /tʊə(ɹ)/

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

11 senses
  1. 1A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
  2. 2A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
  3. 3A journey through a given list of places, such as by an…
  4. 4A trip taken to another country in which several matches…
  5. 5A street and road race, frequently multiday.
  6. 6A set of competitions which make up a championship.
  7. 7A tour of duty.
  8. 8A closed trail.
  9. 9A going round; a circuit.
  10. 10A turn; a revolution.
  11. 11A circuit of snooker tournaments
1

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

  • On our last holiday to Spain we took a tour of the wine-growing regions.
2

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

  • On the company's website, you can take a virtual tour of the headquarters.
3

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

  • Metallica's tour of Europe
4

Ball games, Cricket, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Rugby, Sports A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.

5

Cycling, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports A street and road race, frequently multiday.

6

Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports A set of competitions which make up a championship.

7

Government, Military, Politics, War A tour of duty.

  • 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; […]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:
8

Graph theory, Mathematics, Sciences A closed trail.

9

Obsolete A going round; a circuit.

  • The Bird of Jove, stoopt from his aerie tour,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:
10

Obsolete A turn; a revolution.

  • the tours of the heavenly bodies
  • It [blood] onward springs, and makes the wondrous tour1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation:
11

Ball games, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Snooker, Sports A circuit of snooker tournaments

Derived terms
48 termsabortion 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, retour, 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
Hyponyms
Grand Tour, guided tour, support tour, tour de force, tour d'horizon, whirlwind tour

tour

verb

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

1

To make a journey.

  • The Rolling Stones were still touring when they were in their seventies.
2

To make a circuit of a place.

  • 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.2026 May 23, Julie Belcove, “Farm Fresh”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 90:
Derived terms
overtour, retour, tourable, untoured

tour

noun

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

1

Dated A tower.

tour

verb

Etymology See toot.

1

Obsolete To toot a horn.

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