world tour
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2.5
- noun
- /wɜrld tʊr/
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gira mundial
- After releasing their new album, the band announced a major world tour that will take them to five continents.
- embark on a world tour
- go on a world tour
- kick off our world tour
My issue was when I got back from this world tour, This, this.
- My issue was when I got back from this world tour, This, this.
- And next year you're going on a bigger world tour.
- And super excited to hear how your first stop of the world tour goes.
- So I went on a pretty amazing world tour.
- And, and, and Apple went on a big world tour to try and find a new external designer to work with.
- And, you know, I got to be part of this, this, you know, event program called the Brazil World Tour, which was quite extraordinary at the time.
- And then after that, I go on my world tour, which is another four weeks or five weeks of cities all across Europe, India, Asia and Australia.
- So my entire show, I just went on a world tour and the entire show was based on the premise of getting the audience to sit in discomfort.
- You're going on a world tour and you're in a you're in a glam band, a glam rock band and you're going to Detroit and you're going to Saskatchewan and you're going to Germany.
Examples
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PSY is currently in the process of planning a world tour!
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Secretary of State Charlotte Field continues on her impressive 20-country world tour to garner more support for her ambitious environmental initiative.
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What a way to end the world tour!
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But we're thinking we should do a world tour.
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We're on a world tour.
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I'm gonna have to go on a world tour.
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And then after that, I go on my world tour, which is another four weeks or five weeks of cities all across Europe, India, Asia and Australia.
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He's been on a world tour, and now he's at Radio City Music Hall.
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We are here exclusive on the tarmac as the band Dujour heads off on their world tour.
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Part of the Rochester metropolitan area, this is the biggest stop on the world tour (population more than 96,000).
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Synonyms
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A traveling show that visits different towns to perform plays or concerts
How International
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a journey or series of performances around the world' is directly and compositionally derived from 'world' (pertaining to the planet) + 'tour' (a trip/series of visits), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the MWE meaning. This combinatory pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows a standard adj+noun/compound semantics, making the expression transparently interpretable.
Etymology
World tour comes from the simple idea of a tour that travels around the world. Imagine a band or traveler moving from country to country and putting pins on a map, and that's why it means 'a journey or series of performances or visits in several countries'.