tour
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tour/tʊə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a journey for pleasure in which several different places are visited.
- 2 a short trip to or through a place in order to view or inspect something.
- 3 a journey made by performers or a sports team, in which they perform or play in several different places.
- 4 (also tour of duty) a spell of duty on military or diplomatic service.
■ take (a performer, production, etc.) on tour.
– origin ME (also denoting a circular movement): from OFr., ‘turn’, via L. from Gk tornos ‘lathe’.
'tour' also found in these Oxford entries:
barnstorm
- Cook's tour
- date
- grand tour
- hike
- ivory tower
- marathon
- mystery tour
- operator
- package holiday
- progress
- pub crawl
- road manager
- rotation
- see
- swing
- terret
- tour de force
- tour d'horizon
- tour operator
- tower
- troupe
- turret
- whistle-stop
