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What does the noun tour d'horizon mean?

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun tour d'horizon . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

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Earliest known use

The earliest known use of the noun tour d'horizon is in the 1950s.

OED's earliest evidence for tour d'horizon is from 1952, in Annual Register 1951 .

tour d'horizon is a borrowing from French.

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• toupet, n. 1728–
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• 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–
• Tourette, n.² 1899–
• Tourettism, n. 1981–
• tourification, n. 1802–
• tourify, v. 1820–
• tourifying, adj. 1825–
• touring, n. 1818–
• touring, adj. 1832–

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tour d'horizon, n. was first published in 1986; not yet revised.

tour d'horizon, n. was last modified in July 2023.

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tour d'horizon

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• 2.1 Pronunciation
• 2.2.1 Descendants
• 2.2.2 See also

English [ edit ]

Etymology [ edit ].

Borrowed from French tour d’horizon .

Pronunciation [ edit ]

• IPA ( key ) : /ˈtʊə(ɹ) ˌdɒɹɪˈzɒn/

Noun [ edit ]

tour d'horizon ( plural tours d'horizon )

• 2007 , James Brady, Warning of War: A Novel of the North China Marines : The observation plane made two lazy circles in the darkening sky and then, not wanting to be caught up there with full night coming, it broke off the second tour d'horizon and headed home, south and east.
• 2012 , Edith D. de Leeuw, Joop Hox, Don Dillman, International Handbook of Survey Methodology , page 419 : This chapter provided a tour d'horizon of survey documentation as it stands today and might develop in the near future.
• 2013 , David Brown, The Development of British Defence Policy: Blair, Brown and Beyond : For example, in their otherwise welcome tour d'horizon of developments in British Defence Policy during the New Labour era, Cornish and Dorman skim over the content and consequences of the New Chapter relatively quickly (Cornish and Dorman, 2009).
• 2014 , William A. Blair, Journal of the Civil War Era: Summer 2014 Issue , page 227 : A tour d'horizon of the Western Hemisphere showed slavery confined to the American South, Brazil, and Cuba.
• 2015 , Anthony Quinn, Curtain Call , page 389 : The book that remained at my side while I wrote this novel was Juliet Gardiner's brilliant and enthralling tour d'horizon The Thirties (2010).
• 2020 July 30, Chris Hall, “Bunker by Bradley Garrett review – building for the end times”, in The Guardian ‎ [1] : After an introductory tour d’horizon of the history of bunkers since Cappadocia in 1200BC, Garrett charts the “first doom boom” in the early 1960s [ … ]

Related terms [ edit ]

• tour de force

French [ edit ]

• IPA ( key ) : /tuʁ d‿ɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/

tour d’ horizon   m ( plural tours d’horizon )

• overview , tour d'horizon faire un tour d’horizon ― to give an overview; to go on an extensive tour

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• tour de table

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tour de horizon

Tour de Horizon

A tour de horizon is a quick overview of a wide range of topics to provide a general understanding of a subject.

We took a tour de horizon of the current political climate.

The professor gave us a tour de horizon of the main theories in the field of sociology.

This idiom comes from the French phrase tour d’horizon, which literally means to “turn around the horizon”. It first appeared in English in the early 1900s.

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tour d'horizon ( English)

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• An extensive tour ; figuratively, a wide-ranging or general survey .
• 2009 , Ariel Levy, "Lift and Separate", The New Yorker , 16 Nov 09: In her engaging tour d'horizon "When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present" [...], Gail Collins quotes Van Gelder's lament [...].

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tours d'horizon : tours d'horizon (English) Noun tours d'horizon Plural of tour d'horizon

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• [too r daw- r ee- zaw n ]
• /tur dɔ riˈzɔ̃/

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• noun tour d'horizon a general survey; overview. 1
• noun tour d'horizon a brief but comprehensive review 0

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tour dhorizon noun

An extensive tour; figuratively, a wide-ranging or general survey.

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The numerical value of tour dhorizon in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

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The numerical value of tour dhorizon in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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