tour

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1. tour - Noun

2. tour - Verb

3. Tour - Proper noun

Meaning

A tower.

A going round; a circuit; hence, a journey in a circuit; a prolonged circuitous journey; a comprehensive excursion; as, the tour of Europe; the tour of France or England.

A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies.

anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn; as, a tour of duty.

To make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country.

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Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk. Bruce Dickinson

One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought. Daniel Boone

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto, I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now. Eminem

This was a secret meeting on a secret tour which nobody is supposed to know about. It means that there are men, and perhaps women, in this country walking around with eggs in their pockets, just on the off-chance of seeing the Prime Minister. Edward Heath

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour. Gloria Swanson

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth. Joyce Brothers

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