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say it: tuur
tour is a noun and verb meaning "a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area
“they took an extended tour of Europe”
“we took a quick circuit of the park”
“a ten-day coach circuit of the island”
a period of time spent in military service
make a tour of a certain place
“We toured the Provence this summer”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tour come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.