route
UK/ɹuːt/
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British/ɹʉwt/
route noun: a course or way which is traveled or passed. Also the eye dialect spelling of root.
Noun
route (plural routes)
- A course or way which is traveled or passed.
- The route was used so much that it formed a rut.
- You need to find a route that you can take between these two obstacles.
- A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
- We live near the bus route.
- Here is a map of our delivery routes.
- A road or path; often specifically a highway.
- Follow Route 49 out of town.
- One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
- If such an option is to viable over time, it needs to be protected against competitors. Having patent protection is one route. […] Another route is to have a programmatic investment strategy […]. Rolex has taken this route […]2010, Damien McLoughlin, David A. Aaker, Strategic Market Management: Global Perspectives, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, pages 156–7
- One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
- The Chinese, ever since the first century of our era, have called the countries which we to-day name Kashgar and Sungaria, "routes." They referred them to their relative position on the two sides of the Tian-Shan, and called our Sungaria, Pe-lu, " northern route," and our Kashgar, Nan-lu, "...1908, Henry Smith Williams, The Historians' History of the World
- Under the director were eight education promotion officials (quanxue yuan), each installed in a “route”(lu,corresponding to the policing ward).2005, Huaiyin Li, Village Governance In North China: Huailu County, 1875-1936, →ISBN
- A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.
- A race longer than one mile.
- A path that has been secured by a railway signalling system for the passage of a train and locked to prevent any conflicting train movements from taking place.
Verb
route (third-person singular simple present routes, present participle routeing or (sometimes in US) routing, simple past and past participle routed)
- To direct or divert along a particular course.
- All incoming mail was routed through a single office.
- to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.
- To send (information) through a router.
- Google Glass has come under fire from privacy advocates because it can record video without subjects being aware of it, and that any video will be routed through Google's servers.2014 June 24, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, in The Guardian
Proper noun capitalized: Route
Route (plural Routes)
- A surname from French.
Also used as
route is also the eye dialect spelling of root.
route meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
route in Hindi
- passing, course, road
- मार्ग mārg
- course or way traveled
- मार्ग mārg, रास्ता rāstā, राह rāh
route in Tamil
- வழித்தடம்
route in Marathi
- मार्ग, मार्गक्रमण, मार्गाचा
route in Urdu
- course or way traveled
- راہ rāh
More languagesFewer languages
- route in Telugu
- మార్గము mārgamu
- route in Malayalam
- റൂട്ട്
- route in Punjabi
- ਰੂਟ, ਰੂਟ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- route in Gujarati
- રૂટ
- route in Sanskrit
- पथ patha, मार्ग mārga
- route in Nepali
- मार्ग
- route in Tagalog
- yagban
- route in Arabic
- طَرِيق ṭarīq, مَسار masār
- route in Malay
- jajaran, laluan
- route in Indonesian
- rute, relasi
- route in Thai
- ทาง taang, ถนน tà-nǒn, เส้นทาง sên-taang
- route in Vietnamese
- tuyến đường, hành trình, lộ trình
- route in Myanmar
- လမ်းကြောင်း lam:kraung:, ကြောင်း kraung:, လမ်း lam:, ဝီထိ wihti.
Examples of route in a sentence
- The Route 4 bus will arrive on 5th St. at Robinson Ave at 3:30.
- And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
- This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.2013 March, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 83:
- For instance, Yangszhou was not only the seat of the Pacificiation Commission (xuanweisi) of Huaidonglu, but also the capital of the Yanzhou Route (lu) subordinated to the Pacification Commission.2012, Hans Ulrich Vogel, Marco Polo Was in China, →ISBN:
Forms of route
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | routes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | routes |
| present participle | routeing |
| present participle sometimes | routing |
| past participle | routed |
| past | routed |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Routes |
Origin of route
From Middle English route, from Old French route, from Latin rupta [via] (literally “a path made by force”). Compare Modern French route. See routine. Further via Latin ruptus related with bankrupt. Unrelated to road.
Borrowed from French Route, or a variant spelling of Routt.
Words formed from route
- bridge route
- bus route
- donkey route
- down route
- downroute
- en route
- on route
- escape route
- Euroroute
- fixed route
- fly route
- Garden Route
- go the route
- great circle route
- in route
- kangaroo route
- multiroute
- oil burner route
- panya route
- paper route
- poled route
- preroute
- red route
- route indicator
- routeless
- routeman
- route-march
- route march
- route mile
- route of administration
- route-one
- route one football
- route planner
- route redistribution
- route runner
- route setter
- route slip
- route step
- routeway
- routon
- scenic route
- star route
- subroute
- traceroute
- trade route
- wine route
- misroute
- reroute
- routability
- routable
- router
- routine
- rutter
Phrases with route
- Route 66
- route miles
- route slips
- route steps
- route marched
- route marches
- route runners
- route setters
- goes the route
- gone the route
- route marching
- route planners
5 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with route
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- moot
- overshoot
- recruit
- salute
- volute
- dispute
- impute
- pollute
- scoot
- snoot
- substitute
- chute
- depute
- dilute
- hoot
- loot
- pursuit
- reboot
- scute
- uproot
- Beirut
- cahoot
- Clute
- convolute
- lute
- zoot
- ablute
- Aleut
- argute
- astute
- beaut
- bruit
- compute
- coot
- doot
- en route
- glout
- jute
- minute
- newt
- poot
- refute
- repute
- resolute
- 'tute
- angel lute
- butte
- cheroot
Questions about route
- What does route mean?
- Route means a course or way which is traveled or passed.
- What is route in Hindi?
- Route in Hindi is मार्ग (mārg), रास्ता (rāstā), राह (rāh). See Route meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use route in a sentence?
- The Route 4 bus will arrive on 5th St. at Robinson Ave at 3:30.
- What part of speech is route?
- Route can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce route?
- Route is pronounced /ɹuːt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of route?
- The plural of route is routes.
Words near route in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: route (page history and authors); Route (page history and authors); route (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); route (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); route (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); route (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); route (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); route (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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