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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 educationplay

2. a sightseeing tour of a building or institutionplay

  Familiarity information: GRAND TOUR used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GRAND TOUR (noun)


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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