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route
[ root, rout ]
noun
- a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
's the shortest route to Boston?
- a customary or regular line of passage or travel:
There's a ship from our company on the North Atlantic route.
- a specific itinerary, round, or number of stops regularly visited by a person in the performance of their work or duty:
a newspaper route;
a mail carrier's route.
Synonyms: ,
verb (used with object)
- to set the path of:
to route a tour.
- to send or forward by a particular course or road:
It's the post office's job to route mail to its proper destination.
route
/ ː /
noun
- the choice of roads taken to get to a place
- a regular journey travelled
- capital a main road between cities
Route 66
- mountaineering the direction or course taken by a climb
- med the means by which a drug or agent is administered or enters the body, such as by mouth or by injection
oral route
verb
- to plan the route of; send by a particular route
Usage
Other Word Forms
- ·dzܳٱ verb (used with object) misrouted misrouting
- ·dzܳٱ verb (used with object) prerouted prerouting
- ·dzܳٱ verb rerouted rerouting
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of route1
Idioms and Phrases
- go the route, Informal.
- to see something through to completion:
It was a tough assignment, but he went the route.
- Baseball. to pitch the complete game:
The heat and humidity were intolerable, but the pitcher managed to go the route.
Example Sentences
These supply routes have resulted in deforestation and left a lasting imprint on the region's mountains.
She also described the offer of compensation to people living near the pylon route was "derisory".
Power completed the gruelling 340-mile route in three days 12 hours and eight minutes, smashing the previous record set by Mimi Anderson by more than three hours.
"The North African community was quite mixed, and it was a trade route also for many people who were involved in trade in the earlier antiquity," she explained.
More security along the route of a well-known pub crawl was needed after two women were seriously injured in an attack involving a crossbow, a councillor has said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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