tour

Use tour in a sentence

noun

The definition of a tour is a trip or journey for sightseeing or for entertainers to perform in many cities.

An example of a tour is taking a two-week train trip through Rome, Paris, Barcelona and Berlin.

Link/Cite

Link to this page

Cite this page

MLA Style

"tour." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 25 May 2019. <https://www.yourdictionary.com/TOUR>.

APA Style

tour. (n.d.). Retrieved May 25th, 2019, from https://www.yourdictionary.com/TOUR

tour

a turn or shift of work; esp., a period of duty or military service at a single place
in full tour of duty
a long trip, as for sightseeing
any trip, as for inspection; round; circuit; specif., a trip, as by a theatrical company or speaker, to give performances, lectures, etc. at a number of cities

Origin of tour

Middle English from Middle French from Old French to(u)rn from tourner, to turn

to go on a tour

to take a tour through
to take (a play, theatrical company, etc.) on a tour

tour Idioms

on tour

touring, as to give performances, lectures, etc.

Link/Cite

Link to this page

Cite this page

MLA Style

"tour." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 25 May 2019. <https://www.yourdictionary.com/TOUR>.

APA Style

tour. (n.d.). Retrieved May 25th, 2019, from https://www.yourdictionary.com/TOUR

tour

noun

A trip with visits to various places of interest for business, pleasure, or instruction.
A group organized for such a trip or for a shorter sightseeing excursion.
A brief trip to or through a place for the purpose of seeing it: a tour of the house.
A journey to fulfill a round of engagements in several places: a pianist on a concert tour.
A shift, as in a factory.
A period of duty at a single place or job.
Sports A series of professional tournaments, as in golf.

verb

toured, tour·ing, tours

verb

intransitive

To travel from place to place, especially for pleasure.
To travel among various places while fulfilling engagements.

verb

transitive

To make a tour of: toured Europe last summer; officials touring the scene of the disaster.
To present (a play, for example) on a tour.

Origin of tour

Middle English a turn from Old French ( influenced by tourner to turn about ) from Latin tornus lathe ; see turn .

Related Forms:

tour′er
noun

THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Link/Cite

Link to this page

Cite this page

MLA Style

"tour." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 25 May 2019. <https://www.yourdictionary.com/TOUR>.

APA Style

tour. (n.d.). Retrieved May 25th, 2019, from https://www.yourdictionary.com/TOUR

Noun

(plural tours)

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.
(military) A tour of duty.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured)

(intransitive) To make a journey; as, to tour throughout a country.
To make a circuit of a place

Origin

From Old French tour, tourn, from the verb torner, tourner.

Noun

(plural tours)

(dated) A tower.

Origin

Old French tor, French tour (“tower")

Verb

(third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured)

(obsolete) To toot a horn.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Origin

See toot.

Proper noun