单词 | tour operator |
释义 | > as lemmastour operator attributive and in other combinations, as tour-book, tour bus, tour director, tour guide, tour-making, tour operator, tour party, tour-writer, tour-writing; tour-money n. money paid for travelling fare and accommodation on a tour. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > record or account of (a) journey(s > [noun] > action of writing tour-writing?1764 travel writing1776 society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > record or account of (a) journey(s > [noun] > action of writing > one who voyage-writer1705 travel writer1711 tour-writer?1764 society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > that which guides or leads > guidebook itinerarya1552 journal1552 xenagogy1576 itinerario1588 periegesis1591 journey-book1610 wayfaring-book1610 itinerarium1747 guide1759 ambulator1774 guidebook1814 tour-book1824 travel guide1881 tourist guide1924 ?1764 J. Bush Hibernia Curiosa To Rdr. p. vi Neglected by the..tour-writers. 1793 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 70. 560 The rage for tour-writing, which prevails in the female world. 1824 J. Macculloch Highlands & W. Isles I. 41 I shall be obliged to write a tour book myself. 1869 P. Landreth Life A. Thomson i. 1 This occasional tour-making did not break up the continuity of his energetic life. 1909 Daily Chron. 5 Aug. 4/4 A third member of the party took fright..and requested the return of the tour-money. 1952 Galaxy June 56/2 I'm the tour director. Can I help you? 1965 J. A. Michener Source (1966) 22 That afternoon the first excursionists stopped at the tell, asking to see the Candlestick of Death, and the next morning a tour bus arrived. 1971 M. McCarthy Birds of Amer. 107 Their tour director, who had met them at Le Havre. 1973 P. Theroux Saint Jack xviii. 219 The tour-guide had started his spiel. 1976 J. Snow Cricket Rebel 47 I could only wait anxiously for the announcement of the names of the tour party to visit the West Indies that winter of 1967–68. 1981 Sunday Express Mag. 11 Oct. 9/1 (advt.) We've taken more British holiday-makers here than any other tour operator. 1981 M. Kenyon Zigzag xi. 67 He was agonizingly shy... Guiding tour parties petrified him. < as lemmas |
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