TOUR DE FORCE

Meaning of TOUR DE FORCE in English

Pronunciation: ˌ tu ̇ r-d ə - ' fo ̇ rs

Function: noun

Inflected Form: plural tours de force \ same \

Etymology: F

Date: 1802

: a feat or display of strength, skill, or ingenuity <the movie is a comic tour de force >

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary. Merriam Webster - Энциклопедический словарь английского языка. 2012

TOUR DE FORCE — [F] tour de force
Interlingua English vocab
TOUR DE FORCE — noun (plural tours de force) Etymology: French Date: 1802 a feat or display of strength, skill, or ingenuity
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
TOUR DE FORCE — |tu̇rdə|fō(ə)rs, -|fȯ(ə)rs; |tu̇ədə|fōəs, -|fȯ(ə)s noun ( plural tours de force “) Etymology: French 1. : a feat of strength, skill, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TOUR DE FORCE
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
TOUR DE FORCE — achievement achieved with much skill; performance done with supreme skill; masterwork; feat of strength; outstanding feat
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
TOUR DE FORCE — noun ( plural tours de force same ) Etymology: French Date: 1802 : a feat or display of strength, skill, …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TOUR DE FORCE — [ ˌtʊə də'fɔ:s ] ■ noun ( plural tours de force pronunciation same) a performance or achievement that has been …
Concise Oxford English vocab
TOUR DE FORCE — [tour de force] n, pl tours de force [F] (1802): a feat of strength, skill, or ingenuity
Merriam-Webster English vocab
TOUR DE FORCE — / ˌtʊə də ˈfɔːs; NAmE ˌtʊr də ˈfɔːrs/ noun ( pl. tours de force / ˌtʊə də ˈfɔːs; NAmE ˌtʊr …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TOUR DE FORCE — tour de force /ˌtʊə də ˈfɔːs $ ˌtʊr də ˈfɔːrs/ BrE AmE noun [singular] written [ Date: 1800-1900 ; Language: …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
TOUR DE FORCE — n. a feat of strength or skill. [F]
Английский основной разговорный словарь
TOUR DE FORCE — n. a feat of strength or skill. [ F ]
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
TOUR DE FORCE — n. a feat of strength or skill. Etymology: F
Oxford English vocab
TOUR-DE-FORCE — see tour de force
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TOUR DE FORCE — also tour-de-force ( tours de force) If you call something such as a performance, speech, or production a tour de …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TOUR DE FORCE — also tour-de-force (tours de force) If you call something such as a performance, speech, or production a ~, you are …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
TOUR-DE-FORCE — see tour de force
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
TOUR DE FORCE — noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Hartman's new novel is a literary tour de force . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
TOUR DE FORCE — Synonyms and related words : accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action, adventure, blow, classic, coup, dealings, deed, doing, doings, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
TOUR DE FORCE — Function: noun 1 Synonyms: FEAT 2, achievement, deed, exploit 2 Synonyms: MASTERPIECE 1, chef d'oeuvre, classic, magnum opus, masterwork
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
TOUR DE FORCE — noun 1. Synonyms: feat 2, achievement, deed, exploit 2. Synonyms: masterpiece 1, chef d'oeuvre, classic, magnum opus, masterwork
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
TOUR DE FORCE — проявление силы, ловкости или изобретательности
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
TOUR DE FORCE — проявление силы, ловкости или изобретательности
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
TOUR DE FORCE — проявление силы, ловкости или изобретательности
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
TOUR DE FORCE — проявление силы, ловкости или изобретательности
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
TOUR-DE-FORCE — = tour de force
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
TOUR DE FORCE — фр. ; сущ. ; мн. - tours de force проявление силы ( тж. перен. : проявление таланта, мастерства ) The …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
TOUR-DE-FORCE — - tour de force
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
TOUR DE FORCE — фр.; сущ.; мн. - tours de force проявление силы (тж. перен.: проявление таланта, мастерства) The actress gave a tour-de-force performance. — Игра …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
TOUR DE FORCE — проявление силы, ловкости или изобретательности
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
DE — prep I. from; also: since; II. of (1. belonging or pertaining to; 2. made of); III. with, by means of; …
Interlingua English vocab
TOUR — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Tour de France {{link=Turenne Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne viscount de">Turenne Henri de La …
Английский словарь Британика
FORCE — I Action that tends to maintain or alter the position of a body or to distort it. It is a …
Английский словарь Британика
DE — I or te (Chinese; " virtue ") In Daoism , the potentiality of dao that is present in all things; …
Английский словарь Британика
TOUR — I. ˈtu̇(ə)r, ˈtu̇ə, in sense 1 sometimes ˈtau̇(ə)r or ˈtau̇ə noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FORCE — I. ˈfō(ə)rs, ˈfȯ(ə)rs, ˈfōəs, ˈfȯ(ə)s noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French force, from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DE- — prefix Etymology: Middle English, from Old French de-, des-, partly from Latin de- from, down, away (from de ) and …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DE- — () A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the …
Английский словарь Webster
DE- — A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
TOUR — /toor/ , n. 1. a traveling around from place to place. 2. a long journey including the visiting of a …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FORCE — — forceable , adj. — forceless , adj. — forcer , n. — forcingly , adv. /fawrs, fohrs/ , n. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
DE' — /deuh/ ; It. /de/ , prep. dei (used in Italian names as an elided form of dei ): de' Medici.
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
DE- — a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin ( decide ); also used to indicate privation, removal, and separation ( dehumidify …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
DE — /deuh/ ; Fr. /deuh/ ; Sp. /de/ ; Port. /di/ , prep. from; of (used in French, Spanish, and Portuguese …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
TOUR — I. ˈtu̇r, 1 is also ˈtau̇(-ə)r noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French tur, tourn turning, circuit, journey — more at …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FORCE — I. ˈfȯrs noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin * fortia, from Latin fortis strong Date: 14th century …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
DE- — Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French de-, des-, partly from Latin de- from, down, away (from de, preposition) and partly from …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TOUR — noun a tower. 2. tour ·vi to make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country. 3. tour ·vt a …
Webster English vocab
FORCE — noun validity; efficacy. 2. force ·noun a waterfall; a cascade. 3. force ·noun to allow the force of; to value; …
Webster English vocab
DE- — a prefix from latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. in words from the french …
Webster English vocab
TOUR — [tour] n [ME, fr. MF, fr. OF tourn, tour lathe, circuit, turn--more at turn] (14c) 1 a: one's turn in …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
DE- — [de-] prefix [ME, fr. OF de-, des-, partly fr. L de- from, down, away (fr. de, prep.) and partly fr. …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
DE — [DE] abbreviation defensive end, Delaware, doctor of engineering
Merriam-Webster English vocab
TOUR — tour BrE AmE tʊə tɔː AmE tʊ ə r ▷ toured tʊəd tɔːd AmE tʊ ə rd ▷ touring ˈtʊər …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
DE- — de- BrE AmE ˌdiː, di, də —Attached to free forms, meaning 'do the opposite of' or 'remove', this prefix is …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
DE — De, de in English family names BrE AmE də
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
DE — I de in French phrases BrE AmE də di —French [ də ] II de in Latin phrases BrE AmE …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
TOUR — / tʊə(r); tɔː(r); NAmE tʊr/ noun , verb ■ noun 1. tour (of / round / around sth) a journey …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FORCE — / fɔːs; NAmE fɔːrs/ noun , verb ■ noun VIOLENT ACTION 1. [ U ] violent physical action used to …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TOUR — I. tour 1 S3 W2 /tʊə $ tʊr/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1300-1400 ; Language: Old French ; …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FORCE — I. force 1 S2 W1 /fɔːs $ fɔːrs/ BrE AmE noun [ Word Family: adjective : ↑ forceful , ↑ …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
DE- — de- /diː, dɪ/ BrE AmE prefix [ Language: Old French ; Origin: Latin de- 'from, down, away' and Latin dis- …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
DE — DE written abbreviation for ↑ Delaware
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
TOUR — n. & v. --n. 1 a a journey from place to place as a holiday. b an excursion, ramble, or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary

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