tour
//tɔː(ɹ)//
Forms
- Plural
- tours
- present (v1)
- tour
- past (v2)
- toured
- past participle (v3)
- toured
- present participle
- touring
- 3rd person singular
- tours
Definitions
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.
- When is the next guided tour?
4.A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
- When is the next guided tour?
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.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1705
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Old French tour, tourn
From the verb torner, tourner.