tour

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A trip with visits to various places of interest for business, pleasure, or instruction.
2. n. A group organized for such a trip or for a shorter sightseeing excursion.
3. n. A brief trip to or through a place for the purpose of seeing it: a tour of the house.
4. n. A journey to fulfill a round of engagements in several places: a pianist on a concert tour.
5. n. A shift, as in a factory.
6. n. A period of duty at a single place or job.
7. n. Sports A series of professional tournaments, as in golf.
8. v. To travel from place to place, especially for pleasure.
9. v. To travel among various places while fulfilling engagements.
10. v. To make a tour of: toured Europe last summer; officials touring the scene of the disaster.
11. v. To present (a play, for example) on a tour.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A Middle English form of tower.
2. n. A turn: a revolution.
3. n. A turn, course, or shift, as of duty or work: originally a military use.
4. n. A turn round some place; a going round from place to place; a continued ramble or excursion; a short journey: as, a wedding tour.
5. n. A turn, drive, or carriage promenade in a park or other place of fashionable resort for driving.
6. n. A fashionable drive, or resort for driving, as that in Hyde Park, London.
7. n. Turn; cast; drift.
8. n. Synonyms Trip, Excursion, etc. See journey.
9. To turn.
10. To make a tour; travel about.
11. To make a tour or circuit of: as, to tour an island.

Wiktionary

1. n. A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
2. n. A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
3. n. A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
4. n. sports A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
5. n. military A tour of duty.
6. v. intransitive To make a journey; as, to tour throughout a country.
7. v. transitive To make a circuit of a place
8. n. dated A tower.
9. v. obsolete To toot a horn.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete A tower.
2. n. A going round; a circuit; hence, a journey in a circuit; a prolonged circuitous journey; a comprehensive excursion.
3. n. obsolete A turn; a revolution.
4. n. (Mil.) anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn.
5. v. To make a tourm.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area
2. v. make a tour of a certain place
3. n. a period of time spent in military service
4. n. a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)