Tour Meaning
/tɔː(ɹ)/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
nounA guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
Sentence Examples
Is there a tour guide available?
Where do I book a bus tour?
Our tour guide showed us around the old town.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The band's concert ____ around Europe will start next month in Paris.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We went on a guided ____ of the historic city and saw many beautiful buildings and ancient stone monuments today.
Word Origin & History
From Old French tour, tourn, from the verb torner, tourner.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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, →ISSN:
"The Bird of Jove, stoopt from his aerie tour,"
— 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
"It [blood] onward springs, and makes the wondrous tour"
— 1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation:
"Longtime Brooklynites, the pair had been casually searching for an upstate weekend retreat when they toured a house on a 3-acre parcel of land in Amenia, New York."
— 2026 May 26, Julie Belcove, “Farm Fresh”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 90:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The band's concert ____ around Europe will start next month in Paris.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We went on a guided ____ of the historic city and saw many beautiful buildings and ancient stone monuments today.