Dictionary

tour de force en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌtuɹ.dəˈfoɹs/ (US)
• /ˌtuɹ.dəˈfɔɹs/ (US)
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Etymology

Borrowed from French tour de force (“feat of strength”), circa 19th century.

Meanings

1. A feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field.
   • Much as I admire Wilson’s tour de force—I wish people would read it more and read about it less—my hackles have always risen at the entirely false suggestion that his book influenced mine. 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 429:
   • Now orbiting Earth, Gravity Probe B is a technological tour de force.

Forms

Relateds

coup de force · tour d'horizon

Translations (14)

yo àrà (Feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field) · nl krachttoer (Feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field) · cmn 絕技 /绝技 (Feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field) · nl huzarenstuk (Feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field) · fi taidonnäyte (Feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field) · es tour de force (Feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field) · nl krachtdaad (Feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field) · nl tour de force (Feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field) · fi loistosuoritus (Feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field) · et jõudemonstratsioon (Feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field) · fr tour de force (Feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field) · fi voimannäyte (Feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field) · fr exploit (Feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field) · el κατόρθωμα (Feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field)