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tours d'horizon

tours d'horizon is the plural of tour d'horizon.

Meaning of tour d'horizon

Noun

tour d'horizon (plural tours d'horizon)

  1. An extensive tour; figuratively, a wide-ranging or general survey.
    • The observation plane made two lazy circles in the darkening sky and then, not wanting to be caught up there with full night coming, it broke off the second tour d'horizon and headed home, south and east.2007, James Brady, Warning of War: A Novel of the North China Marines

Questions about tours d'horizon

What is tours d'horizon the plural of?
Tours d'horizon is the plural of tour d'horizon.

Words near tours d'horizon in the dictionary

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

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