- tour
- [[t]tʊ͟ə(r)[/t]]
♦♦tours, touring, toured1) N-COUNT: usu with supp A tour is an organized trip that people such as musicians, politicians, or theatre companies go on to several different places, stopping to meet people or perform.
The band are currently on a two-month tour of Europe...
It will be the first official cricket tour of South Africa for 22 years.
...a presidential campaign tour in Illinois.
●PHRASE: PHR after v, v-link PHR When people are travelling on a tour, you can say that they are on tour.The band will be going on tour...
The Royal Opera is on tour...
There were mixed fortunes for French rugby teams on tour.
2) VERB When people such as musicians, politicians, or theatre companies tour, they go on a tour, for example in order to perform or to meet people.[V n] A few years ago they toured the country in a roadshow...
He toured for nearly two years and played 500 sell-out shows...
[V-ing] Dean Jones is with the Australian touring team in Sri Lanka.
3) N-COUNT: oft N of n A tour is a journey during which you visit several places that interest you.It was week five of my tour of the major cities of Europe.
4) N-COUNT: oft N of n A tour is a short trip that you make round a place, for example round a historical building, so that you can look at it....a guided tour of a ruined Scottish castle.
5) VERB If you tour a place, you go on a journey or trip round it.[V n] You can also tour the site on modern coaches equipped with videos...
[V n] We toured the streets of Milan.
English dictionary. 2008.
