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Definitions for Route

[1] a course, way, or road for passage or travel: What's the shortest route to Boston?
[2] a customary or regular line of passage or travel: a ship on the North Atlantic route.
[3] 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.
[4] to fix the route of: to route a tour.
[5] to send or forward by a particular route: to route mail to its proper destination.
[6] 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.
[7] the choice of roads taken to get to a place
[8] a regular journey travelled
[9] (capital) US a main road between cities Route 66
[10] mountaineering the direction or course taken by a climb
[11] med the means by which a drug or agent is administered or enters the body, such as by mouth or by injection oral route
[12] to plan the route of; send by a particular route

Words related to Route

program, direction, way, course, track, passage, trail, journey, itinerary, line, avenue, road, transmit, pike, digression, run, meandering, rambling, plot, beat

Words nearby Route

roussillon, roust, roustabout, rouster, rout, route, route 128, route march, route one, route survey, routeman

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

Words that may be confused with Route

root, rout, route

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.

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

Synonyms for Route

avenue, course, direction, itinerary, journey, line, passage, program, road, track, trail, way, beat, beeline, byway, circuit, detour, digression, divergence, meandering, pavement, pike, plot, rambling, range, round, rounds, run, tack, wandering, short cut