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発音

• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (pour–poor merger) IPA: /tɔː(ɹ)/
  • (without the pour–poor merger) IPA: /tʊə(ɹ)/
• (General American, Canada)
  • (without the pour–poor merger) IPA: /tʊɚ/, /tʊɹ/
  • (pour–poor merger) IPA: /tɔɹ/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /tʉːɹ/
• (Ireland) IPA: /tuːɹ/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /tʉːə/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ)
• 異形同音異義語: ; tore (pour–poor merger), tor (pour–poor merger, horse–hoarse merger); taw (pour–poor merger, horse–hoarse merger, non-rhotic)

語源 1

From Old French tour, tourn, from the verb torner, tourner.

名詞

tour (plural tours)

1. A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.

   On our last holiday to Spain we took a tour of the wine-growing regions.

2. A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.

   On the company's website, you can take a virtual tour of the headquarters.

3. A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.

   Metallica's tour of Europe

4. (sports, chiefly cricket and rugby) A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
5. (sports, cycling) A street and road race, frequently multiday.
6. (sports) A set of competitions which make up a championship.
7. (military) A tour of duty.
   • 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:

     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; […]

8. (graph theory) A closed trail.
9. (obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
   • 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:

     The Bird of Jove, stoopt from his aerie tour,

10. (obsolete) A turn; a revolution.

    the tours of the heavenly bodies

    • 1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation:

      It [blood] onward springs, and makes the wondrous tour

11. (snooker) A circuit of snooker tournaments

下位語

派生語

動詞

tour (third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured)

1. (intransitive) To make a journey

   The Rolling Stones were still touring when they were in their seventies.

2. (transitive) To make a circuit of a place

   The circuses have been touring Europe for the last few weeks.

語源 2

From Old French tor, French tour (“tower”).

名詞

tour (plural tours)

1. (dated) A tower.

語源 3

See toot.

動詞

tour (third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured)

1. (obsolete) To toot a horn.

参照

• “tour”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• rout, trou

語源

From 古期英語 tūr, tor, torr, from Latin turris.

発音

• IPA: /tuːr/

名詞

tour (plural toures)

1. tower

派生した語

• English: tower (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: tour, towr
• Yola: toweare

参照

• “tǒur, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.