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Tour   /tʊr/   Listen
noun
Tour  n.  A tower. (Obs.)


Tour  n.  
1.
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. "The bird of Jove stooped from his airy tour."
2.
A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies. (Obs.)
3.
(Mil.) Anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn; as, a tour of duty.
Synonyms: Journey; excursion. See Journey.


verb
Tour  v. i.  (past & past part. toured; pres. part. touring)  To make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country.





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"Tour" Quotes from Famous Books



... makes a half tour of the kitchen and ends right in front of him]. Young man: do you remember coming into my shop and telling me that my husband's coals were out of place in your cellar, as Nature evidently intended them ...
— Getting Married • George Bernard Shaw
... you had better know, Bob, that there's something queer about John Ford. They tell a lot of stories about him, but the one most common is that he's waiting till he gets one hundred thousand dollars before starting on a tour of revenge. ...
— Bob Chester's Grit - From Ranch to Riches • Frank V. Webster
... M. Knaak, for a new figure was beginning. "Compliment! Moulinet des dames! Tour de main!" And no one can describe in what a graceful manner he swallowed the silent ...
— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 • Various
... of them may seem to be incorporated in this narrative, under the guise of mere romance, the reader need not on this account think himself misled, or treat them with sublime contempt. If it should ever be his fate or fortune to make a tour through the East Indian Archipelago, he ...
— The Castaways • Captain Mayne Reid
... expects it to do with her exactly when it has taken her, on the strength of a Cook ticket, I don't quite know; but I may later, because she vows she'll keep me at her side with hooks of steel all through the tour—unless something worse happens to me, or to some of us because of me." "Biddy, dear, don't be morbid. Nothing bad will happen," I tried to ...
— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson


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