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tour

//tɔː(ɹ)//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Note for tour

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Forms

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
tours

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)
tour
past (v2)
toured
past participle (v3)
toured
present participle
touring
3rd person singular
tours

Definitions

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

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

    • When is the next guided tour?
  4. 4.A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.

    • When is the next guided tour?

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

  1. 1.To make a journey.

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

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Word family

Etymology

From Old French tour, tourn

From the verb torner, tourner.

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