Tour
[tʊə] or [tʊr]
Definition
(noun.) a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area; 'they took an extended tour of Europe'; 'we took a quick circuit of the park'; 'a ten-day coach circuit of the island'.
(verb.) make a tour of a certain place; 'We toured the Provence this summer'.
Checked by Delores--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A tower.
(v. t.) A going round; a circuit; hence, a journey in a circuit; a prolonged circuitous journey; a comprehensive excursion; as, the tour of Europe; the tour of France or England.
(v. t.) A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies.
(v. t.) anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn; as, a tour of duty.
(v. i.) To make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country.
Checker: Rita
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Journey (in a circuit), excursion, trip, expedition, pilgrimage, circuit, round, perambulation, course.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Trip, excursion, jaunt, ramble, turn, outing
Edited by Cecilia
Definition
n. a going round: a journey in a circuit: a prolonged journey: a ramble.—n. Tour′ist one who makes a tour a traveller for sight-seeing.—adj. Touris′tic.
Editor: Olaf
Examples
- You will have my sketches, some time or other, to look ator my tour to reador my poem. Jane Austen. Emma.
- But Mr. Orton went on an extended tour just about that time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This boyish notion won no converts, and at the age of eighteen he went on a lecture tour on chemistry, under the dignified title of Dr. Coult. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They are still partly on a marriage, and partly on an artistic, tour. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Ginevra--Miss Fanshawe, has accompanied the Cholmondeleys on a tour through the south of France? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Miss Ophelia, after passing on her reformatory tour through all the other parts of the establishment, now entered the kitchen. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- We should return by France; and it was agreed that the tour should occupy the space of two years. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- In his automobile he has made long tours, and with his family has particularly indulged his taste for botany. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- From Boulogne to Dieppe, from Dieppe to Caen, from Caen to Tours--trying with all her might to be respectable, and alas! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Charles Aoisseau, the potter of Tours, born in 1796, rediscovered and revived the art of Palissy. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Later he went to France, where he was consulted in regard to the new line that was building between Orleans and Tours. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Here Edison, throwing himself down, sometimes seeks a short rest during specially long working tours. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This tunnel is large enough to permit the easy passage of a touring car. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Then with Living Wax-Works, touring New England. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I was whisked from the railway station in a big touring car, through beautiful country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Smith, trapped up in semi-military style, toured Ulster, inspecting these volunteers and inflaming local passion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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