Definition of "tour"

tour¹

/tɔː(ɹ)/

noun
plural tours
1. A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
2. A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
3. A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
4. (sports, chiefly cricket and rugby) A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
5. (sports, cycling) A street and road race, frequently multiday.
6. (sports) A set of competitions which make up a championship.
7. (military) A tour of duty.
  Quotations
  Among those released were two Americans who had been held captive for more than three months: Alex Drueke, a former U.S. Army staff sergeant who served two tours in Iraq, according to his aunt, Dianna Shaw; […]
  2022 September 21, Carly Olson, Dan Bilefsky, “Ten prisoners, including Americans, have been released as part of a Russia-Ukraine exchange, Saudi Arabia says.”, in The New York Times‎
8. (graph theory) A closed trail.
9. (obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
  Quotations
  The Bird of Jove, stoopt from his aerie tour,
  1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
10. (obsolete) A turn; a revolution.
  Quotations
  It [blood] onward springs, and makes the wondrous tour
  1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation
11. (snooker) A circuit of snooker tournaments
verb
third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured
1. (intransitive) To make a journey
2. (transitive) To make a circuit of a place

tour²

/tɔː(ɹ)/

noun
plural tours
1. (dated) A tower.

tour³

/tɔː(ɹ)/

verb
third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured
1. (obsolete) To toot a horn.

Definition of "tour"

tour1

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tour2

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