tour d'horizon
/ˈtʊə(ɹ)ˌdɒɹɪˈzɒn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An extensive tour; figuratively, a wide-ranging or general survey.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "This chapter provided a tour d'horizon of survey documentation as it stands today and might develop in the near future."
- "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)."
- "A tour d'horizon of the Western Hemisphere showed slavery confined to the American South, Brazil, and Cuba."
- "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)."
- "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 […]"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French