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route
[root, rout]
noun
a course, way, or road for passage or travel.
What'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.
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
/ ruːt /
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
- misroute verb (used with object)
- preroute verb (used with object)
- reroute verb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of route1
Idioms and Phrases
go the route,
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
But he said there were no plans to open up more visa routes to Indian workers or students.
Hundreds of hikers made their way to the Karma Valley hiking trail, a lesser-known but scenic route to the base of Everest - which also offers a view of the world's highest peak.
“The government is clearly engaged in a war on education. ... Capitulation is the fastest route to ruin.”
Judge Astrit Kalaja died en route to hospital, officials said, while two others involved in the hearing over a property dispute - a father and son - were shot but sustained injuries that were not life-threatening.
But he said he wasn’t a great student and thought the private-school route would be easier — and faster.
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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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