tour
IPA: tˈʊr
noun
- A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
- A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
- A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
- (sports, chiefly cricket and rugby) A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
- (sports, cycling) A street and road race, frequently multiday.
- (sports) A set of competitions which make up a championship.
- (military) A tour of duty.
- (graph theory) A closed trail.
- (obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
- (obsolete) A turn; a revolution.
- (snooker) A circuit of snooker tournaments
- (dated) A tower.
- (cycling, by ellipsis) The Tour de France.
verb
- (intransitive) To make a journey
- (transitive) To make a circuit of a place
- (obsolete) To toot a horn.
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Examples of "tour" in Sentences
- The tour was cancelled.
- The tour was impressive and fun.
- The tour was fraught with problems.
- He was in the national tour of Ragtime.
- On the tour the success was unbelievable.
- However, the pace of the tour was exhausting.
- By 2005 the tour was renamed to the Encore Tour.
- Fear Of The Dark Tour was the tour supporting the album.
- The crew consists of the captain, hostess, chef, and tour guide.
- The tour guide points out interesting and worthwhile features of the landscape.
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