different between promenade vs tour

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French promenade, from promener (“to walk”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??m?n??d/, /p??m??n??d/, (rare) /?p??m?ne?d/, /p??m??ne?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p??m??ne?d/, /p??m??n?d/
• Rhymes: -??d, -e?d

Noun

promenade (plural promenades)

1. (formal) A prom (dance).
2. A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burke to this entry?)

3. A place where one takes a walk for leisurely pleasure, or for exercise, especially a terrace by the seaside.
   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 235:

     The present dream in particular scarcely left any room for doubt, since the place where my patient fell was the Graben, a part of Vienna notorious as a promenade for prostitutes.
4. A dance motion consisting of a walk, done while square dancing.

Synonyms

• (a place to walk): esplanade

Translations

Verb

promenade (third-person singular simple present promenades, present participle promenading, simple past and past participle promenaded)

1. To walk for amusement, show, or exercise.
2. To perform the stylized walk of a square dance.

Derived terms

• promenader (agent noun)

Translations

Anagrams

• open-armed

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French promenade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pro?.m??na?.d?/
• Hyphenation: pro?me?na?de
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

promenade f (plural promenades or promenaden)

1. promenade

French

Etymology

promener +? -ade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??m.nad/
• Rhymes: -ad
• Homophone: promenades

Noun

promenade f (plural promenades)

1. walk; stroll (walk for enjoyment)

Derived terms

• promenade de santé

Descendants

Further reading

• “promenade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??(?)/, /t??(?)/, /t?/
• Rhymes: -??(?), -??(?)
• Homophone: tore (pour-poor merger)

Etymology 1

From Old French tour, tourn, from the verb torner, tourner.

Noun

tour (plural tours)

1. A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.

2. A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.

3. A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.

4. (sports, chiefly cricket and rugby) A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
5. (sports, cycling) A street and road race, frequently multiday.
6. (sports) A set of competitions which make up a championship.
7. (military) A tour of duty.
8. (graph theory) A closed trail.
9. (obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
10. (obsolete) A turn; a revolution.
    • 1712, Richard Blackmore Creation

      It [blood] onward springs, and makes the wondrous tour

11. (snooker) A circuit of snooker tournaments

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• study tour
• tour guide

Translations

Verb

tour (third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured)

1. (intransitive) To make a journey

2. (transitive) To make a circuit of a place

Translations

Etymology 2

Old French tor, French tour (“tower”)

Noun

tour (plural tours)

1. (dated) A tower.

Etymology 3

See toot.

Verb

tour (third-person singular simple present tours, present participle touring, simple past and past participle toured)

1. (obsolete) To toot a horn.

References

• tour in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• rout, trou

Breton

Noun

tour

1. Hard mutation of dour.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French tour.

Pronunciation

Noun

tour m (plural tours, diminutive tourtje n)

1. tour

Synonyms

• rondreis

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Etymology 1

From Old French tor, from Latin turris, turrem, from Ancient Greek ?????? (túrrhis), ?????? (túrsis).

Noun

tour f (plural tours)

1. tower

2. (chess) rook
3. apartment building

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Breton: tour

Etymology 2

Deverbal Old French torner, tourner.

Noun

tour m (plural tours)

1. turn, circumference
2. go, turn
3. walk, stroll
4. round, stage (of a competition)
5. trick (e.g. magic trick, card trick)
6. ride

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Russian: ???? (tura)
• ? Ukrainian: ???? (tura)

Etymology 3

From Latin tornus.

Noun

tour m (plural tours)

1. lathe, potter’s wheel

Derived terms

• tour de potier
• tour d'abandon
• tour du poteau

Anagrams

• trou

See also

Further reading

• “tour” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Noun

tour m (plural tours)

1. tour (guided visit)
2. tour (journey through a given list of places)

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tur/

Etymology 1

Noun

tour (plural tours)

1. tour

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• towr

Noun

tour (plural tours)

1. tower

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tu?/, [?t?u?]

Noun

tour m (plural tours)

1. tour, guided visit to a country, museum, etc.

   Synonyms: viaje, visita, excursión

2. (sports) tour, a trip to another country to play matches
3. (music) tour, a trip to other countries undertaken by a singer or musician

   Synonym: gira