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tour
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What does tour mean?
noun
- 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.
More meanings (13)
noun
- A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
- A street and road race, frequently multiday.
- A set of competitions which make up a championship.
- A tour of duty.
- A closed trail.
- A circuit of snooker tournaments
- (obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
- (obsolete) A turn; a revolution.
- (dated) A tower.
verb
- To make a journey.
- To make a circuit of a place.
- (obsolete) To toot a horn.
proper noun
- Ellipsis of Tour de France.
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IPA pronunciation
/tʊɹ/
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He would thus complete the tour round the submarine world, and return to those waters in which the Nautilus could sail freely.
Ugly churches were a part of his pastime in Europe, as well as beautiful ones, and his tour was altogether a pastime.
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He had, indeed, travelled with her and Barnum during a portion of their tour, and had played at several of the concerts.
Shortly afterward, I resumed my tour around the prison, and with much toil came at last upon the fragment of the serge.
Its hoarse voice is sweetest music to me, heralding the fact that two-thirds of my long tour across the continent is completed.