tours
Meaning of tours
plural noun
- a journey for pleasure in which several different places are visited.
a motoring tour of Scotland
- a journey made by performers or a sports team, in which they perform or play in several different places.
Ireland's eight-match tour of New Zealand
she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company on tour
- a spell of duty on military or diplomatic service.
a tour of duty in Northern Ireland
- make a tour of (an area).
he decided to tour France
he toured in America and Europe
Middle English (in tour (sense 3 of the noun); also denoting a circular movement): from Old French, ‘turn’, via Latin from Greek tornos ‘lathe’. Sense 1 dates from the mid 17th century.
Information about tours
- The singular form of tours is: tour.
- Languages in which tours is used:
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Hyphenation of tours
tours
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- tours is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
tours synonyms
Meaning Tours:
Meaning a short journey or trip, especially one taken as a leisure activity:
Meaning an act of travelling from one place to another:
Meaning a journey undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose, especially that of exploration, research, or war:
Meaning a journey or excursion, especially for pleasure:
Meaning a short excursion or journey made for pleasure:
Meaning a trip taken for pleasure, especially one lasting a day or less:
Meaning an extravagant trip or celebration, in particular one enjoyed by a government official at public expense:
Meaning a long journey involving travel by sea or in space:
Meaning a long arduous journey, especially one made on foot:
Meaning an expedition to observe or hunt animals in their natural habitat, especially in East Africa:
Meaning a journey, especially a long or meandering one:
Meaning a person's fixed or allotted period of work:
Meaning an act of stretching one's limbs or body:
Meaning write or name the letters that form (a word) in correct sequence:
Meaning a slight change in position, direction, or tendency:
Meaning an act of moving something in a circular direction round an axis or point:
Meaning a task or piece of work allocated to someone as part of a job or course of study:
Meaning a moral or legal obligation; a responsibility:
Meaning travel through (an unfamiliar area) in order to learn about it:
Meaning sail about in an area without a precise destination, especially for pleasure:
Meaning travel widely:
Meaning visit as a tourist, especially in a superficial or hurried way:
Meaning stay temporarily with (someone) or at (a place) as a guest or tourist:
Meaning perceive with the eyes; discern visually:
Meaning look at (someone or something) closely, typically to assess their condition or to discover any shortcomings:
Meaning assess (something) formally with the intention of instituting change if necessary:
Meaning look closely at or examine (someone or something):
Meaning examine or inspect closely and thoroughly:
Anagrams of tours
roust, routs, rusot, sutor, torus, Turos
Words that rhyme with tours
ours, giaours, Barbours, calembours, tabours, tambours, unharbours, Cours, bescours, concours, cours, recours, scours, secours, pandours, pompadours, troubadours, uncandours, haveours, carrefours, fours, Hours, afterhours, flexihours, hours, leachours, manhours, treachours, twalhours, watthours, workhours, saviours, scurriours, abatjours, clours, cornflours, flours, hypercolours, lours, ryeflours, velours, Nemours, amours, glamours, paramours, tenours, downpours, inpours, outpours, pours
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