tout

«tout» in Mova's school dictionary: to try hard to sell something or to praise it loudly, so… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (tout, touts, touted, touting); noun (a tout, touts) (UK); (French) adjective (tout)

meaning for a pupil

1) To tout means to try hard to sell something or to praise it loudly, so people will buy or believe it. tree →

2) (UK) A tout (ticket tout) is a person who buys tickets for concerts or matches and sells them at a higher price. tree →

3) (French) «Tout» means «all» or «everything», as in «tout le monde» (everybody); it sounds like «too». tree →

sense in the lessons

In news, a product is «touted as» the best. Outside stadiums, ticket touts sell tickets illegally or at high prices. In French lessons, «tout» and «toute» mean all.

examples

• He was touted as the next football star. tree →
• Ticket touts were selling seats for double the price. tree →
• Street sellers touted cheap watches. tree →
• «Tout le monde» means everybody in French. tree →
• The new game was touted as the best ever. tree →
• Don't buy from touts — the tickets might be fake. tree →

note

English «tout» rhymes with «out»; French «tout» sounds like «too». US: «scalper» for a ticket tout.

In the corpora

• tu means you (to a friend) and uses the French u; tout means all and sounds like English "too".

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «tout» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.