route
pronunciation
How to pronounce route in British English:
UK [ruːt]
How to pronounce route in American English:
US [ruːt]
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- Noun:
- an established line of travel or access
- an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
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- Verb:
- send documents or materials to appropriate destinations
- send via a specific route
- divert in a specified direction
Word Origin
- route
- route: see rut
- route (n.)
- early 13c., from Old French rute "road, way, path" (12c.), from Latin rupta (via) "(a road) opened by force," from rupta, fem. past participle of rumpere "to break" (see rupture (n.)). Sense of "fixed or regular course for carrying things" (as in mail route) is 1792, an extension of the meaning "customary path of animals" (early 15c.).
- route (v.)
- 1890, from route (n.). Related: Routed; routing.
Example
- 1. Drive a different route to work .
- 2. It runs along a fixed route .
- 3. The second route was to inflate the debt away .
- 4. The only route still open led to the federal government .
- 5. Mr uribe refuses to go down that route again .