tour, circuit
(noun) 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”
go, spell, tour, turn
(noun) a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else); “it’s my go”; “a spell of work”
enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty, duty tour, tour
(noun) a period of time spent in military service
tour
(verb) make a tour of a certain place; “We toured the Provence this summer”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
tour (plural tours)
A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
(sports, chiefly, cricket and rugby) A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
(sports, cycling) A street and road race, frequently multiday.
(sports) A set of competitions which make up a championship.
(military) A tour of duty.
(graph theory) A closed trail.
(obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
(obsolete) A turn; a revolution.
• Grand Tour
• tour d'horizon
• tour de force
• whirlwind tour
tour (third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured)
(intransitive) To make a journey
(transitive) To make a circuit of a place
tour (plural tours)
(dated) A tower.
tour (third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured)
(obsolete) To toot a horn.
• rout, trou
the Tour
(cycling, by ellipsis) The Tour de France.
• rout, trou
Source: Wiktionary
Tour, n. Etym: [F. tour. See Tower.]
Definition: A tower. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Tour, n. Etym: [F. tour. See Turn, v. t.]
1. 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. The bird of Jove stooped from his airy tour. Milton.
2. A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies. [Obs.] Blackmore.
3. (Mil.)
Definition: anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn; as, a tour of duty.
Syn.
– Journey; excursion. See Journey.
Tour, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Toured; p. pr. & vb. n. Touring.]
Definition: To make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country. T. Hughes.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
