[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tout.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / tout

[← T](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/T/)

# 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 →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tout/#m3)

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

### In the corpora

- [tu means you (to a friend) and uses the French u; tout means all and sounds like English "too".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/2-funny-french-sounds-nasal-vowels-the-french-r-and-u/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tout» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tout/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.