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# tout

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

«tout» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To tout means to try hard to sell something or to praise it loudly, so people will buy or believe it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tout/#m1)
2. (UK) A tout (ticket tout) is a person who buys tickets for concerts or matches and sells them at a higher price. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tout/#m2)
3. (French) «Tout» means «all» or «everything», as in «tout le monde» (everybody); it sounds like «too». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tout/#m3)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tout/#x1)
- Ticket touts were selling seats for double the price. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tout/#x2)
- Street sellers touted cheap watches. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tout/#x3)
- «Tout le monde» means everybody in French. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tout/#x4)
- The new game was touted as the best ever. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tout/#x5)
- Don't buy from touts — the tickets might be fake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tout/#x6)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «tout» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tout/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tout» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tout.html) on Mova free.