tours

Meaning of tours

plural noun
  1. a journey for pleasure in which several different places are visited.
    a motoring tour of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. a spell of duty on military or diplomatic service.
    a tour of duty in Northern Ireland
verb, 3rd person present
  1. 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.
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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:

Tours

Meaning a short journey or trip, especially one taken as a leisure activity:

excursion

Meaning an act of travelling from one place to another:

journey

Meaning a journey undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose, especially that of exploration, research, or war:

expedition

Meaning a journey or excursion, especially for pleasure:

trip

Meaning a short excursion or journey made for pleasure:

jaunt

Meaning a trip taken for pleasure, especially one lasting a day or less:

outing

Meaning an extravagant trip or celebration, in particular one enjoyed by a government official at public expense:

junket

Meaning a long journey involving travel by sea or in space:

voyage

Meaning a long arduous journey, especially one made on foot:

trek

Meaning an expedition to observe or hunt animals in their natural habitat, especially in East Africa:

safari

Meaning a journey, especially a long or meandering one:

peregrination

Meaning a person's fixed or allotted period of work:

stint

Meaning an act of stretching one's limbs or body:

stretch

Meaning write or name the letters that form (a word) in correct sequence:

spell

Meaning a slight change in position, direction, or tendency:

shift

Meaning an act of moving something in a circular direction round an axis or point:

turn

Meaning a task or piece of work allocated to someone as part of a job or course of study:

assignment

Meaning a moral or legal obligation; a responsibility:

duty

Meaning travel through (an unfamiliar area) in order to learn about it:

explore

Meaning sail about in an area without a precise destination, especially for pleasure:

cruise

Meaning travel widely:

globetrot

Meaning visit as a tourist, especially in a superficial or hurried way:

do

Meaning stay temporarily with (someone) or at (a place) as a guest or tourist:

visit

Meaning perceive with the eyes; discern visually:

see

Meaning look at (someone or something) closely, typically to assess their condition or to discover any shortcomings:

inspect

Meaning assess (something) formally with the intention of instituting change if necessary:

review

Meaning look closely at or examine (someone or something):

survey

Meaning examine or inspect closely and thoroughly:

scrutinize

Anagrams of tours

roust, routs, rusot, sutor, torus, Turos

Words that rhyme with tours

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