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tour group

tour group noun: a group of tourists on a tour.

Noun

tour group (plural tour groups)

  1. A group of tourists on a tour.
    • A few days before Christmas, I spotted a lone tour group of about twenty-five Christians from Nigeria. Despite the long walk back to the checkpoint, they seemed thrilled to be in the birthplace of Jesus.2001, Charles M. Sennott, “Jerusalem: The Via Dolorosa”, in The Body and the Blood: The Holy Land’s Christians at the Turn of a New Millennium: A Reporter’s Journey, New York, N.Y.: PublicAffairs...
    • Mark describes Jesus’ compassion from the point of view of sheep who are lost without their shepherd. Since few of us have any contact with sheep, we may get an inkling of the meaning by thinking of a tour group without a guide. The group wanders around without leadership and gets lost in the crowd...2002, Mark G. Boyer, “Epiphany to the Baptism of the Lord”, in Waiting in Joyful Hope: Daily Reflections for Advent and Christmas 2002–2003, Year B, Collegeville, Minn.: The Liturgical Press, →ISBN...

Examples of tour group in a sentence

  • Since few of us have any contact with sheep, we may get an inkling of the meaning by thinking of a tour group without a guide.2002, Mark G. Boyer, “Epiphany to the Baptism of the Lord”, in Waiting in Joyful Hope: Daily Reflections for Advent and Christmas...
  • Hotel reservations in summer can be difficult because of tour groups blocking out rooms in the larger hotels.2003, Scott Simpson, “First Steps”, in Krakow, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Thomas Cook Publishing, →ISBN, page 24, column 2:

Forms of tour group

pluraltour groups
alternative formtourgroup

Questions about tour group

What does tour group mean?
Tour group means a group of tourists on a tour.
How do you use tour group in a sentence?
Since few of us have any contact with sheep, we may get an inkling of the meaning by thinking of a tour group without a guide.
What part of speech is tour group?
Tour group is a noun.
What is the plural of tour group?
The plural of tour group is tour groups.

Words near tour group in the dictionary

  1. tour buses
  2. tour busses
  3. tour d'horizon
  4. tour de force
  5. Tour de France
  6. tour group
  7. tour groups
  8. tour guide
  9. tour guides
  10. tour match
  11. tour matches

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