different between tour vs journy

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

Noun

journy (plural journies)

1. Obsolete form of journey.
   • 1818, The Analectic Magazine, volume 12 (July–December 1818)

     Finding, however, that this was not likely soon to take place, he determined to pass the intermediate time in exploring Egypt and the country above the Cataracts, and was thus enabled to perform two very arduous and interesting journies into the ancient Æthiopia […]