Tour vs Travelling - What's the difference?
tour | travelling |
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.
As nouns the difference between tour and travelling
is that tour is a journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc while travelling is standard spelling of lang=en|from=British.As verbs the difference between tour and travelling
is that tour is to make a journey; as, to tour throughout a country while travelling is present participle of lang=en.As a proper noun Tour
is the Tour de France.As an adjective travelling is
standard spelling of lang=en|from=British.tour
English
(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)
Derived terms
* (l) *Etymology 2
(etyl) tor, (etyl)Etymology 3
See toot.References
*Anagrams
* * ----travelling
English
Alternative forms
* travelingVerb
(head)Noun
Adjective
(-)- a travelling companion