detour
pronunciation
How to pronounce detour in British English:
UK [ˈdiːtʊə(r)]
How to pronounce detour in American English:
US [ˈdiːtʊr]
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- Noun:
- a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)
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- Verb:
- travel via a detour
Word Origin
- detour (n.)
- 1738, from French détour, from Old French destor "side road, byway; evasion, excuse," from destorner "turn aside," from des- "aside" + tourner "to turn" (see turn (v.)).
- detour (v.)
- 1836 (intransitive); 1905 (transitive), from detour (n.). Related: Detoured; detouring.
Example
- 1. The great economic detour : a focus on small companies
- 2. " This clash of speeds can often derail the current path of change , or at least send it on a detour , " he warns .
- 3. It was a necessary detour that expanded his emotional palette ; a bloodletting after a harsh breakup and the passing of his mother that manifests itself in twisted fantasy 's harshest lows .
- 4. Early humans may have taken a detour into eurasia before embarking on their epic journey out of africa , according to new fossil evidence .
- 5. A flight from east africa to west africa typically used to require a tedious detour via paris or london .