Definitions for Tour

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Tour tour

Spelling: [too r]

IPA: /tʊər/

Tour is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in Tour (ortu).

Definitions for Tour

noun

1. a traveling around from place to place.
2. a long journey including the visiting of a number of places in sequence, especially with an organized group led by a guide.
3. a brief trip through a place, as a building or a site, in order to view or inspect it:
4. a journey from town to town to fulfill engagements, as by a theatrical company or an entertainer:
5. a period of duty at one place or in one job.
6. Georges de [zhawrzh duh] /ʒɔrʒ də/ (Show IPA), 1593–1652, French painter.

verb (used with object)

1. to travel through (a place).
2. to send or take (a theatrical company, its production, etc.) from town to town.
3. to guide (someone) on a tour:

verb (used without object)

1. to travel from place to place.
2. to travel from town to town fulfilling engagements.

Origin of Tour

1250-1300; Middle English (noun) Middle French Latin tornus Greek tórnos tool for making a circle. See turn

Examples for Tour

They finished out the tour without incident, while newspapers across the country picked up the story.

I was a part of this tour, debating Meyer in Richmond, Virginia in April.

Now I'm going on a tour of exploration and noisy admiration.

Besides visiting Italy he explored Sicily, and kept a journal of his tour.

Such, at least, was my luck when starting for my annual French tour in 1887.

Isn't this tour for our pleasure, and can't we do what we like?

Stanley Richards, Senior Vice President of the Fortune Society, gave a tour along with a few residents.

They are still partly on a marriage, and partly on an artistic, tour.'

Before I go out on tour, I ask for prayer and to help my family.

HONG KONG—Last year, I met a Chinese graduate student on a tour of the northeastern United States before his first day at Harvard.