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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