tour
Other forms: touring; toured
Use the noun tour to describe a route taken while sight-seeing or the act of experiencing a place, like a tour of Italy in which travelers tour museums and churches.
Not all tours have to do with vacations. In fact, a tour can be quite the opposite, such as a snowplow driver whose tour during a blizzard lasts until the streets are clear, or military personnel who serve a tour of duty in the place they are assigned. These kinds of tours involve a commitment of work or service for a certain period of time.
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a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area“they took an extended tour of Europe”synonyms: circuittypes:walkabouta walking trip or tourgrand toura sightseeing tour of a building or institutiongrand touran extended cultural tour of Europe taken by wealthy young Englishmen (especially in the 18th century) as part of their educationitinerationjourneying from place to place preaching or lecturing; a preaching tour or lecturing tourpackage holiday, package toura tour arranged by a travel agent; transportation and food and lodging are all provided at an inclusive pricepub crawla tour of bars or public houses (usually taking one drink at each stop)whistle-stop toura tour by a candidate as part of a political campaign in which a series of small towns are visitedtype of:
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make a tour of a certain place
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a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
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a period of time spent in military servicesynonyms: duty tour, enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty
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