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tour

/tɔː(ɹ)/

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Northern Ireland/tʉːɹ/

tour noun: a journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.

tour: a journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc
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Noun (1)

tour (plural tours)

  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. A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
  5. A street and road race, frequently multiday.
  6. A set of competitions which make up a championship.
  7. 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. 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...
  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. A circuit of snooker tournaments

Verb (1)

tour (third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured)

  1. (intransitive) To make a journey.
    • The Rolling Stones were still touring when they were in their seventies.
  2. (transitive) 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, Julie Belcove, “Farm Fresh”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 90

Noun (2)

tour (plural tours)

  1. (dated) A tower.

Verb (2)

tour (third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured)

  1. (obsolete) To toot a horn.

Proper noun capitalized: Tour

the Tour

  1. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Tour de France.

tour meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

tour in Hindi

भ्रमण

tour in Tamil

journey
சுற்றுலா cuṟṟulā
guided visit
சுற்றுலா cuṟṟulā
journey through given list of places
சுற்றுலா cuṟṟulā
graph theory: a closed trail
சுற்று cuṟṟu

tour in Urdu

ٹور, ٹور کرنا

tour in Bengali

ট্যুর
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tour in Telugu
పర్యటన
tour in Malayalam
പര്യടനം, ടൂർ, ടൂർ ചെയ്യാൻ
tour in Punjabi
ਟੂਰ, ਟੂਰ ਕਰਨਾ
tour in Arabic
رِحْلَة riḥla, جَوْلَة jawla
tour in Indonesian
tur
tour in Persian
تور tur
tour in Thai
ทัวร์ tuua
tour in Vietnamese
du lịch, lữ hành, chuyến du lịch

Examples of tour in a sentence

  • The newly appointed abbot decided to take a tour of the abbey with the cardinal's emissary.
  • The tour group asked their questions in Italian, and their tour guide translated.
  • Radiohead's on tour! Have you heard their latest album yet? It's quite solid.

All 40 example sentences with tour

Forms of tour

Noun
pluraltours
Verb
third-person singular presenttours
present participletouring
past participletoured
pasttoured

Past tense of tour: toured

Plural of tour: tours

Origin of tour

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

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

See toot.

Words formed from tour

Phrases with tour

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Words that rhyme with tour

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Questions about tour

What does tour mean?
Tour means a journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
What is tour in Hindi?
Tour in Hindi is भ्रमण. See Tour meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is tour?
Tour can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce tour?
Tour is pronounced /tɔː(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of tour?
The plural of tour is tours.

Words near tour in the dictionary

  1. toupée fallacies
  2. toupée fallacy
  3. toupées
  4. touque
  5. touques
  6. tour
  7. Tour & Taxis
  8. Tour and Taxis
  9. tour bus
  10. tour buses
  11. tour busses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tour (page history and authors); Tour (page history and authors); tour (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tour (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tour (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tour (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tour (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tour (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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