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: a ship on the North Atlantic route.
a specific itinerary, round, or number of stops regularly visited by a person in the performance of his or her work or duty: a newspaper route; a mail carrier's route.
verb (used with object),rout·ed,rout·ing.
to fix the route of: to route a tour.
to send or forward by a particular route: to route mail to its proper destination.
Idioms for route
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.
Origin of route
1175–1225; Middle English: way, course <Old French <Latin rupta (via) broken (road), feminine past participle of rumpere to break; cf. rout1
SYNONYMS FOR route
3 beat, circuit.
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OTHER WORDS FROM route
mis·route,verb (used with object),mis·rout·ed,mis·rout·ing.pre·route,verb (used with object),pre·rout·ed,pre·rout·ing.re·route,verb,re·rout·ed,re·rout·ing.
Those industries would later build several dams along the route to provide hydroelectric power.
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Well, the company going through the direct route is likely to pay fewer fees as they are hiring bankers as advisors rather than underwriters.
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That route relies on a protein-cutting enzyme called TMPRSS2 to snip the knobby-looking spike protein studding the virus’s surface.
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Visitors can walk or ride the Towpath Trail to follow the historic route of the Ohio & Erie Canal.
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Those that didn’t take the layoffs route cut salaries for their employees.
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AirAsia has now been grounded on this route by the Indonesians.
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And increasingly smart navigation aids in the cockpit brought far greater precision and efficiency to route planning.
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After a hit, they would adjust the search to the most likely route from there.
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The weather on the route of AirAsia Flight 8501 was not unusual for the region and the season.
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I came [to personal essays] through the route of, if you want to call it intellection or a kind of interpretive [genre].
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Up hill and down dale, through the riches of midsummer, the route chosen wound.
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Shortly after this we received a route for Ireland, and marched on the 5th December.
Narrative of the Life and Travels of Serjeant B——|Robert Butler
The dotted line shows the route that most people suggest, but it is not quite so long as the other.
Amusements in Mathematics|Henry Ernest Dudeney
Our route was long and wearisome, extending throughout the following night.
The Adventures of Captain John Patterson with Notices of The Officers &c. of the 50th or Queen's Own Regiment from 1807 to 1821|John Patterson
His route was a circuitous one, but it is probable that he pursued it with little caution.
The Life of Francis Marion|William Gilmore Simms
British Dictionary definitions for route
route
/ (ruːt) /
noun
the choice of roads taken to get to a place
a regular journey travelled
(capital)USa main road between citiesRoute 66
mountaineeringthe direction or course taken by a climb
medthe means by which a drug or agent is administered or enters the body, such as by mouth or by injectionoral route
verbroutes, routing, routeingorrouted(tr)
to plan the route of; send by a particular route
Word Origin for route
C13: from Old French rute, from Vulgar Latin rupta via (unattested), literally: a broken (established) way, from Latin ruptus broken, from rumpere to break, burst
usage for route
When forming the present participle or verbal noun from the verb to route it is preferable to retain the e in order to distinguish the word from routing, the present participle or verbal noun from rout1, to defeat or rout2, to dig, rummage: the routeing of buses from the city centre to the suburbs . The spelling routing in this sense is, however, sometimes encountered, esp in American English