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transitive verb

intransitive verb

• peregrinate

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Middle English, from Anglo-French tur, tourn turning, circuit, journey — more at turn

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2b

1708, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

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What does the noun tour mean?

There are 17 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun tour , ten of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

tour has developed meanings and uses in subjects including

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OED is undergoing a continuous programme of revision to modernize and improve definitions. This entry has not yet been fully revised.

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The earliest known use of the noun tour is in the Middle English period (1150—1500).

OED's earliest evidence for tour is from around 1320, in the Castle of Love .

tour is a borrowing from French.

Etymons: French tour .

Nearby entries

• touladi, n. 1846–
• Toulousain, n. & adj. 1883–
• toumbe, v. 1297
• toup, n. 1959–
• to-up, prep. c1330–50
• toupee, n. 1727–
• toupeed, adj. 1847–
• toupet, n. 1728–
• toupeted, adj. 1903–
• toupet-titmouse, n. 1785–
• tour, n. c1320–
• tour, v. 1746–
• Tourangeau, n. & adj. 1883–
• Tourangeois, adj. & n. 1857–
• tourbillion | tourbillon, n. 1477–
• tour de force, n. 1802–
• Tour de France, n. 1922–
• tour d'horizon, n. 1952–
• tourelle, n. c1330–
• tourer, n. 1927–
• tourette, n.¹ 1881–

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tour: Meaning and Definition of

• a traveling around from place to place.
• a long journey including the visiting of a number of places in sequence, esp. with an organized group led by a guide.
• a brief trip through a place, as a building or a site, in order to view or inspect it: The visiting prime minister was given a tour of the chemical plant.
• a journey from town to town to fulfill engagements, as by a theatrical company or an entertainer: to go on tour; a European concert tour.
• a period of duty at one place or in one job.
• to travel from place to place.
• to travel from town to town fulfilling engagements.
• to travel through (a place).
• to send or take (a theatrical company, its production, etc.) from town to town.
• to guide (someone) on a tour: He toured us through the chateaus of the Loire Valley.
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce might be the closest thing to royalty that Americans have, so a selfie with actual British royalty feels fitting.

The pop superstar and her NFL-playing boyfriend posed for a selfie on Friday night with Prince William and two of his three children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte during night one of her Eras Tour stop in London. The official Prince and Princess of Wales Instagram account first shared a photo of the five standing together backstage, captioning the post, “Thank you @taylorswift for a great evening! #LondonTSTheErastour.” Swift then shared it to her own account and wished Prince William a happy birthday.

Swift can be seen wearing one of her many concert outfits — the long bedazzled blazer she wears while singing “The Man." The royals were all smiles as they stood next to Swift and Kelce, the latter wearing a Team USA Olympics hat. She captioned the photo, “Happy Bday M8! London shows are off to a splendid start 🇬🇧🇺🇸🤝.”

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Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, and their youngest child, Prince Louis, were both absent from the concert and selfie, as Kate continues to undergo cancer treatment . The Princess of Wales made her first public appearance in six months on June 15 to attend Trooping the Colour to honor King Charles' birthday. The royals have mostly kept Kate's treatment private, but assured the public that she is “making good progress.”

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Long covid finally gets a universal definition.

The new description includes more than 200 symptoms and doesn’t put limits on when they start

Long COVID affects millions of Americans of almost all ages, but there has been no standard definition for the condition until now.

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June 12, 2024 at 9:00 am

A sweeping new definition of long COVID could help affected people get recognition of their condition and improve diagnosis and treatment.

The U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine announced the definition for long COVID June 11.

Previous definitions of long COVID have been all over the map , each with its own set of accepted symptoms, timelines and requirements for proof of infection ( SN: 7/29/22 ).

That lack of standardization “left many patients in the lurch without clear ability to be recognized for the condition that they had, with difficulty explaining to family and even to their caregivers,” says Harvey Fineberg, a public health expert who chaired the committee that drafted the definition. “We heard from literally hundreds of people experiencing long COVID about the challenges that they had in being heard, in gaining access to care and obtaining the care they needed.”

More than 1,300 people contributed to the definition . The committee decided to adopt the patients’ own term “long COVID” instead of more medical terms such as “post-acute sequelae of COVID-19” that have also been used to describe the long-term condition. Adoption of the name the patients advocated for gives validation to everyone with the condition who has been struggling, sometimes for years, to have their experience acknowledged, says Daria Oller, a physical therapist in New Jersey who developed long COVID in 2020. “Now, people are trying to not use the term long COVID, and all of us, patients from the first wave, are fighting. We were ignored. That’s ours. We named it.”

The committee chose to go with the name because it’s simple, familiar and easy to communicate, Fineberg said during a webinar introducing the definition. 

No one knows exactly how many people have long COVID, but a recent survey found that more than 17 percent of adults in the United States have experienced the condition. While the National Academies don’t have regulatory or legal power to enforce adoption of the definition, the respected body of scientific experts’ recommendations are often used in making regulatory decisions, determining medical and scientific policies and crafting laws.

Here’s what to know about the long COVID definition.

What is long COVID?

It’s a medical condition that belongs to a family of chronic conditions that kick in after infections with viruses, bacteria, fungi or parasites. That includes chronic health problems such as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and Lyme-associated chronic illnesses.

According to the National Academies’ definition, long COVID is a medical condition that persists for at least three months after an infection with SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Long COVID can affect any organ or system in the body. People may have any of more than 200 symptoms, which may include difficulty breathing, brain fog , blood clots , dizziness, extreme fatigue after exercising, loss of taste or smell, fast heart rate, diarrhea, constipation, diabetes and autoimmune diseases such as lupus ( SN: 2/2/22 ; SN: 8/21/23 ; SN: 1/4/22 ). Those symptoms can appear alone or in multiple combinations, can be continuous, get progressively worse or have bouts in which the patient gets better and then worse again.

Chronic symptoms can affect people who originally had mild to severe COVID and can even strike people who didn’t have any symptoms at all from their original infection. For that reason, the committee that crafted the Academies’ definition says that people don’t need to have had a positive COVID test to be diagnosed with long COVID.

The condition can strike adults and children and can start weeks or months after seeming recovery from the initial infection. The committee didn’t put an upper limit on how long after getting the original illness that long COVID could start.

There are no blood tests or biomarkers that doctors can use to reliably diagnose long COVID right now. The report calls for continued research to find such diagnostic tools.

This definition follows a June 5 report that the Social Security Administration asked the National Academies to prepare. That report similarly found that long COVID can have debilitating symptoms that can affect people’s physical function, quality of life and their ability to work or perform in school for years.

Why is the definition so broad?

The definition is “intentionally inclusive,” the committee says.

“We wanted to be sure that long COVID was not regarded as a diagnosis of exclusion,” says Fineberg, who is president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, based in Palo Alto, Calif. Everyone with lingering effects from a coronavirus infection should fall under the broad umbrella erected by the new definition. That means some people who have long-term health problems caused by a different infectious disease or other cause might be mistakenly diagnosed with long COVID, Fineberg admits.

That big-tent approach is essential for health equity, says committee member Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, a physical medicine and rehabilitation physician at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The committee wanted to make sure that people who don’t have access to testing — because tests weren’t available early on and free testing has ended now — or who got a false negative test or had asymptomatic infections could still be included in the definition. 

“I think they got it right in the sense that they didn’t leave anybody out,” says Ziyad Al-Aly, head of research at the VA Saint Louis Health Care System. Al-Aly was one of the independent experts who reviewed the report.

Will the definition change?

Yes. The report calls for revision of the definition in no more than three years and possibly sooner if new science warrants it.

“We’re very mindful that the definition is only good as far as science can take us at this time,” Fineberg says.

What will the definition mean for the health care for people with long COVID?

Having “the gravitas of the National Academy of Medicine behind” the definition “will be seen by patients and patients advocates as legitimizing the illness which they have been complaining about,” says Al-Aly. “There’s a lot of gaslighting by physicians and by providers, and by the community [and] our society at large.”

Some people have dismissed the condition as being a mental health disorder, but plenty of research has established that there are widespread biological changes, Verduzco-Gutierrez says. The definition “makes it clear that long COVID is a physical health condition.”

Not requiring a positive test to be diagnosed with long COVID “is huge” for Oller, who has no proof that she was infected with SARS-CoV-2 in early 2020. “We couldn’t get tested. There were long lines, and you needed symptoms that I didn’t have.”

Before COVID, Oller was a runner and dancer. After, she had difficulty breathing and pains in her chest, which she now thinks may have been caused by microclots in her lungs. She’s had a battery of health problems that have persisted. Though many symptoms have improved, they haven’t all gone away, and Oller has accepted that she may be dealing some unwanted aftereffects of COVID-19 for life. Early on, she had no name for what she was experiencing and encountered much skepticism that anything was actually wrong with her, even from other medical professionals.

Oller is a founding member of long COVID Physio , an international peer group of people with long COVID and their allies. She was not involved in the National Academies’ report but welcomes the broad definition.

It will be something patients can take to their doctors to bolster their claims, Oller says. She understands some of the difficulties clinicians have with diagnosing long COVID. “It’s hard because it challenges a lot of our biases,” she says. “Exercise makes us worse, trying harder makes us worse. … It’s easier to blame the patient and be like, ‘Oh, you’re not trying. You’re lazy. You just want to get on disability. It’s in your head.’ It’s easier to just send them on that route than to read through all the literature.”

Over time, Oller says, the definition may be refined to include subtypes of long COVID, much the way cancer is an overarching definition of runaway cell growth but is divided by where the cancer occurs and the mutations that cause it. But for now, she says, starting out broad will allow people whose symptoms don’t “fit into a nice little package” to have their condition recognized and acknowledged.

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Have you ever been invited to a party and were asked to "RSVP" by a certain date? Or maybe you wanted to attend an event, such as an art gallery show, and were prompted to "RSVP" for a head count. 

Whether it's for a big wedding or a small get-together, invites are often accompanied by the phrase, "RSVP." But what does it stand for and where does the term come from? 

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What does 'RSVP' mean? 

" RSVP " is an initialism of the French phrase, "répondez s'il vous plaît." this directly translates to "Respond, if you please." 

The initialism is often used to confirm attendance for an event, such as a wedding, birthday party or baby shower. More colloquially, people will use "RSVP" to describe the action of replying to an invite. 

Even though "RSVP" comes from France, it is not used much there since it is seen as formal. Now, it is more common to see " SVP ," which stands for "S'il vous plaît," used. 

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Taylor Swift has undoubtedly proven herself as both an economic phenomenon and a successful businesswoman. Her remarkable financial success has set new benchmarks in the music industry and led to substantial economic activity. This includes increased spending in live music entertainment sectors, and the creation of numerous jobs, all while delighting fans of all ages.

‘Swiftonomics’ refers to the economic influence and impact of Taylor Swift on various sectors, driven primarily by her concerts and tours. In 2023, Taylor Swift launched her Eras Tour, a global series of shows that have become the highest-grossing tour on record , with a gross income of more than $1 billion in ticket sales globally. Moreover, the tour generated an additional $250 million from the sales of the Eras Tour film and $200 million from merchandise sales.

The Eras Tour has significantly boosted local and national economies. The economic activities driven by Swiftonomics include direct spending on tickets and merchandise, indirect spending in hospitality, dining, and retail, and induced spending from the increased income and employment generated by these events.

Swiftonomics illustrates how a high-profile artist with her unique influence and business decisions can create substantial economic ripple effects. Taylor Swift's impact extends beyond entertainment revenue, illustrating the profound economic power of the entertainment industry in contemporary economies. Maria Psyllou, Assistant Professor in Economics - University of Birmingham

Taylor Swift’s tours exemplify how the multiplier effect operates within the entertainment industry. This economic concept measures how a change in economic activity, such as investment or spending, leads to a spillover impact on various sectors and the overall economic output of a country.

Initial spending by fans on tickets and merchandise injects capital into the economy, benefitting sectors such as event venues, local businesses, merchandise producers, and tour logistics companies. As this initial spending circulates through the economy, it stimulates additional rounds of spending.

Increased demand for concert-related services such as hospitality (hotels, restaurants), transportation (taxis, public transport), and retail (souvenirs, clothing) leads to increased business activity in these sectors. Businesses respond by hiring more workers, who then have more income to spend on other goods and services, further amplifying the economic impact.

Moreover, Taylor Swift’s global fan base contributes to the cultural and tourism effects, enhancing the multiplier effect. Fans travelling to attend her concerts stimulate local economies through increased spending on accommodation, dining, shopping, and sightseeing.

In summary, Swiftonomics illustrates how a high-profile artist with her unique influence and business decisions, can create substantial economic ripple effects . Taylor Swift's impact extends beyond entertainment revenue, illustrating the profound economic power of the entertainment industry in contemporary economies.

The Eras Tour is estimated to boost the UK economy by almost £1 billion – a substantial economic boost driven by the enthusiastic spending of fans, who on average are spending some £848 each during the tour. This has profound short-term and long-term impacts across the cities it visits in the UK.

In the short term, the tour catalyses immediate economic benefits as fans from across the country and around the world converge to attend her performances. Cities like London, Liverpool, Edinburgh, and Cardiff experience a surge in tourism and visitor spending during concert dates, boosting revenues for hotels, restaurants, and retail establishments. This influx of spending extends to supporting services such as transportation and event logistics, generating a ripple effect that stimulates economic activity throughout the local economy.

Looking ahead, the long-term impacts of Taylor Swift's tour are equally significant. The tour enhances the international visibility and reputation of these cities as cultural and entertainment hubs capable of hosting major global events. This heightened profile attracts continued investments in infrastructure and tourism facilities, which are essential for sustaining long-term economic growth. Also, the tour leaves a legacy of increased community pride and engagement, as residents and businesses collaborate to capitalise on their city's status as a preferred destination for international concerts and events.

Specifically, Taylor Swift's return to London in August 2024 underscores the city's ongoing appeal as a key venue for major entertainment spectacles. While London benefits from the immediate economic boost during the concert period, the broader impact extends beyond the city limits to encompass the entire UK. The tour's continued presence in London reinforces the city's position as a global cultural capital, attracting ongoing investments and fostering sustained economic growth in sectors related to tourism, hospitality, and entertainment.

In conclusion, Taylor Swift's Eras Tour delivers immediate economic benefits to cities across the UK through increased tourism and local spending and establishes a foundation for long-term economic prosperity and cultural enrichment. The tour's multifaceted impacts underscore its role in enhancing the economic vitality and global reputation of UK cities, highlighting the enduring benefits of hosting major international events within the region.

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• The tour offers a chance to visit places of interest .
• Despite the accident , she intends to complete her tour as originally planned .
• The band's American tour coincided with the release of their second album .
• They went on a sightseeing tour of London.
• The tour guide was very informative .

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