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TOURS
Tours
(noun) an industrial city in western France on the Loire River
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
tours
plural of tour
Verb
tours
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tour
Anagrams
• Rusto, Stour, roust, routs, stour, sutor, torus
Proper noun
Tours
The capital of the Indre-et-Loire département, in Centre, in France.
Anagrams
• Rusto, Stour, roust, routs, stour, sutor, torus
Source: Wiktionary
TOUR
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
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