different between tour vs perambulation

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

English

Etymology

perambulate +? -ion; alternative surface analysis is per- +? ambulation.

Noun

perambulation (countable and uncountable, plural perambulations)

1. (rare) A survey, a tour; a walking around.
   • 1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 10:

     If any Man for that rea?on has an Inclination to divert him?elf, and Sail with me round the Globe, to ?upervi?e almo?t all the Conditions of Humane Life, without being infected with the Vanities, and Vices that attend such a Whim?ical Perambulation; let him follow me, who am going to Relate it in a Stile, and Language, proper to the Variety of the Subject: For as the Caprichio came Naturally into my Pericranium, I am re?olv’d to pur?ue it through Thick and Thin, to enlarge my Capacity for a Man of Bu?ine?s.

2. (law) An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.
3. The district thus inspected.

Quotations

• 1902: Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, published by the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society

  Another forest not named in the perambulation is that of Horwich.

• 1929: Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, published by the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society

  The earliest known reference to the stone is that in the perambulation of the parish of Puddletown recorded in the Cartulary of Christchurch Priory.

Synonyms

• (English legal ceremony) bannering

References

• Radin Law Dictionary, Max Radin; Oceana Publications, 1970.

Anagrams

• preambulation