tour

tour is a 4-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A tower. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A tower.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. transitive verb. A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies.
4. transitive verb. anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn; as, a tour of duty.
5. intransitive verb. To make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country.
6. noun. a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area

   "they took an extended tour of Europe"

   "we took a quick circuit of the park"

   Synonyms: circuit

7. noun. a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)

   "it's my go"

   "a spell of work"

   Synonyms: go, spell, turn

8. noun. a period of time spent in military service

   Synonyms: enlistment, hitch

9. verb. make a tour of a certain place

   "We toured the Provence this summer"

Synonyms

circuit, go, spell, turn, enlistment, hitch

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tour:

outr, rout, toru, trou

Common word forms

tours, toured, tourer, touring, tourize

Words from these letters

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