Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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tour

/tɔː(ɹ)/ noun, verb

Forms tours touring toured the Tour

  1. noun A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc. “On our last holiday to Spain we took a tour of the wine-growing regions.”
  2. noun A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place. “On the company's website, you can take a virtual tour of the headquarters.”
  3. noun A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts. “Metallica's tour of Europe”
  4. noun (sports, chiefly cricket and rugby) A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
  5. noun (sports, cycling) A street and road race, frequently multiday.
  6. noun (sports) A set of competitions which make up a championship.
  7. noun (military) A tour of duty.
  8. noun (graph theory) A closed trail.
  9. verb (intransitive) To make a journey. “The Rolling Stones were still touring when they were in their seventies.”
  10. verb (transitive) To make a circuit of a place. “The circuses have been touring Europe for the last few weeks.”
  11. noun (dated) A tower.
  12. verb (obsolete) To toot a horn.

Synonyms

circuit go spell turn enlistment hitch term of enlistment tour of duty duty tour

Etymology

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

From Old French tor, French tour (“tower”).

See toot.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A tower. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. noun 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. noun A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies. [Obs.]
  4. verb To make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country. T. Hughes.

Etymology [F. tour. See Tower.]

Etymology [F. tour. See Turn, v. t.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “tour”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “tour” (best matches first).