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tours

tours is the plural of tour.

tours is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tour.

Meaning of tour

Noun

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.

See all 15 meanings of tour

Proper noun capitalized: Tours

Tours

  1. A city, the largest in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France and the capital of Indre-et-Loire department.

Origin of tours

From French Tours, from Latin Turonum, from Turones, the name of the area's Gaulish inhabitants in antiquity.

Phrases with tours

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Questions about tours

What does tours mean?
Tours means a city, the largest in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France and the capital of Indre-et-Loire department.
What is tours the plural of?
Tours is the plural of tour.
What part of speech is tours?
Tours is a proper noun.

Words near tours in the dictionary

  1. touron
  2. touronaut
  3. touronauts
  4. tourons
  5. Tourret
  6. tours
  7. tours d'horizon
  8. tours de force
  9. tours of duty
  10. tourscape
  11. tourscapes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tours (page history and authors); Tours (page history and authors); tour (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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