Excursion vs Tour - What's the difference?
excursion | tour |
A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
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, chapter=2 A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
(military) A tour of duty.
(obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
* Milton
(obsolete) A turn; a revolution.
Tour is a synonym of excursion.
As nouns the difference between excursion and tour
is that excursion is a brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way while tour is a journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.As a verb tour is
to make a journey; as, to tour throughout a country.As a proper noun Tour is
the Tour de France.excursion
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(en noun)citation, passage=Mother
Derived terms
* alarums and excursions * excursion steamerExternal links
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(wikipedia tour)Etymology 1
From (etyl) tour, tourn, from the verb torner, tourner.Noun
(en noun)- The bird of Jove stooped from his airy tour .
- the tours of the heavenly bodies
- (Blackmore)