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GRAND TOUR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does grand tour mean?
• GRAND TOUR (noun)
The noun GRAND TOUR has 2 senses:
1. an extended cultural tour of Europe taken by wealthy young Englishmen (especially in the 18th century) as part of their education
2. a sightseeing tour of a building or institution
Familiarity information: GRAND TOUR used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An extended cultural tour of Europe taken by wealthy young Englishmen (especially in the 18th century) as part of their education
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("grand tour" is a kind of...):
circuit; tour (a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A sightseeing tour of a building or institution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("grand tour" is a kind of...):
circuit; tour (a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area)
Context examples
Eight and a half years into its grand tour of the solar system, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft was ready for another encounter.
(The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, NASA)
When she came down, looking like a pretty Quakeress in her dove-colored suit and straw bonnet tied with white, they all gathered about her to say 'good-by', as tenderly as if she had been going to make the grand tour.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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