tour de force
/ˌtuɹ.dəˈfoɹs/
tour de force noun: a feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field.
Noun
tour de force (plural tours de force)
- A feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field.
- Now orbiting Earth, Gravity Probe B is a technological tour de force.
- Much as I admire Wilson’s tour de force—I wish people would read it more and read about it less—my hackles have always risen at the entirely false suggestion that his book influenced mine.1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 429
tour de force meaning in Tamil
tour de force in Tamil
- விசைச் சோதனை
Forms of tour de force
| plural | tours de force |
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Origin of tour de force
Borrowed from French tour de force (“feat of strength”), circa 19th century.
Questions about tour de force
- What does tour de force mean?
- Tour de force means a feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field.
- What is tour de force in Tamil?
- Tour de force in Tamil is விசைச் சோதனை. See Tour de force meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is tour de force?
- Tour de force is a noun.
- How do you pronounce tour de force?
- Tour de force is pronounced /ˌtuɹ.dəˈfoɹs/ (US).
- What is the plural of tour de force?
- The plural of tour de force is tours de force.
Words near tour de force in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tour de force (page history and authors); tour de force (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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