name
Meaning 1
A surname from French.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
route
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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ro͞ot
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rhymes with -uːt
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homophone: root
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homophone: rute
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Ireland, Received-Pronunciation: /ɹuːt/
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British, Southern, Standard: /ɹʉwt/
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Australian: /ɹʉːt/
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Canada, General-American: /ɹut/
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Wales: /ɾuːt/
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Scotland: /ɾʉt/
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Northern-Ireland: /ɻʉt/
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rout
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rhymes with -aʊt
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homophone: rout
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General-American: /ɹaʊt/
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Canada, nonstandard: /ɹʌʊt/
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CMU ARPABET: R UW1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: R AW1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A course or way which is traveled or passed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 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.
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- We live near the bus route.
- Here is a map of our delivery routes.
- The Route 4 bus will arrive on 5th St. at Robinson Ave at 3:30.
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noun
Meaning 4
A road or path; often specifically a highway.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Follow Route 49 out of town.
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noun
Meaning 5
One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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noun
Meaning 6
One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Meaning 7
A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 8
A race longer than one mile.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, horse-racing, horseracing, horses, lifestyle, pets, racing, sports
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noun
Meaning 9
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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verb
Meaning 10
To direct or divert along a particular course.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- All incoming mail was routed through a single office.
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
Meaning 11
to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
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verb
Meaning 12
To send (information) through a router.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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verb
Meaning 13
Eye dialect spelling of root.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
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noun
Meaning 14
an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: road
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: way
Narrower terms: access road, slip road, byway, bypath, byroad, causeway, clearway, corduroy, detour, roundabout way, drive, parkway, driveway, private road, highway, main road, line, railway line, rail line, post road, roadway, shortcut, cutoff, crosscut, side road, skid road, speedway, thoroughfare, track, cart track, cartroad, turnoff
noun
Meaning 15
an established line of travel or access
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: path, itinerary
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: line
Narrower terms: feeder line, main line, track, data track, air lane, flight path, airway, skyway, traffic pattern, approach pattern, pattern, beat, round, bus route, line of flight, line of march, orbit, celestial orbit, electron orbit, paper route, paper round, beeline, circuit, crosscut, supply line, supply route, line of fire, migration route, flyway, fairway, direction, way, trade route, Northwest Passage
verb
Meaning 16
divert in a specified direction
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- divert the low voltage to the engine cylinders
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: divert
verb
Meaning 17
send via a specific route
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: send, direct
verb
Meaning 18
send documents or materials to appropriate destinations
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dispatch, despatch, send off
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French Route, or a variant spelling of Routt.
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.
Across languages
Translations
258 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: rrugë — course or way traveled
- Albanian: itinerar — course or way traveled
- Arabic: طَرِيق (ṭarīq) — course or way traveled
- Arabic: مَسار (masār) — course or way traveled
- Armenian: երթուղի (ertʻuġi) — course or way traveled
- Azerbaijani: marşrut — course or way traveled
- Azerbaijani: yol — course or way traveled
- Belarusian: маршру́т (maršrút) — course or way traveled
- Belarusian: шлях (šljax) — course or way traveled
- Belarusian: даро́га (daróha) — course or way traveled
- Belarusian: пуць (pucʹ) — course or way traveled
- Belarusian: курс (kurs) — course or way traveled
- Belarusian: тра́са (trása) — course or way traveled
- Bulgarian: път (pǎt) — course or way traveled
- Bulgarian: маршру́т (maršrút) — course or way traveled
- Burmese: လမ်းကြောင်း (lam:kraung:) — course or way traveled
- Burmese: ကြောင်း (kraung:) — course or way traveled
- Burmese: လမ်း (lam:) — course or way traveled
- Burmese: ဝီထိ (wihti.) — course or way traveled
- Burmese: လိုင်း (luing:) — course or way traveled
- Catalan: ruta — course or way traveled
- Chichewa: mpito — course or way traveled
- Chinese Mandarin: 路線 /路线 (lùxiàn) — course or way traveled
- Chinese Mandarin: 航線 /航线 (hángxiàn) — course or way traveled
- Chinese Mandarin: 線 /线 (xiàn) — course or way traveled
- Chinese Mandarin: 路 (lù) — course or way traveled
- Czech: trasa — course or way traveled
- Czech: cesta — course or way traveled
- Danish: rute — course or way traveled
- Danish: vej — course or way traveled
- Dutch: route — course or way traveled
- Dutch: traject — course or way traveled
- Esperanto: irvojo — course or way traveled
- Esperanto: vojo — course or way traveled
- Esperanto: vojiro — course or way traveled
- Esperanto: itinero — course or way traveled
- Estonian: marsruut — course or way traveled
- Estonian: teekond — course or way traveled
- Estonian: tee — course or way traveled
- Finnish: reitti — course or way traveled
- French: route — course or way traveled
- French: chemin — course or way traveled
- French: itinéraire — course or way traveled
- Galician: ruta — course or way traveled
- Galician: camiño — course or way traveled
- Georgian: გზა (gza) — course or way traveled
- Georgian: მარშრუტი (maršruṭi) — course or way traveled
- Georgian: სვლაგეზი (svlagezi) — course or way traveled
- German: Route — course or way traveled
- German: Weg — course or way traveled
- German: Pfad — course or way traveled
- German: Wegstrecke — course or way traveled
- Greek: διαδρομή (diadromí) — course or way traveled
- Hindi: मार्ग (mārg) — course or way traveled
- Hindi: रास्ता (rāstā) — course or way traveled
- Hindi: राह (rāh) — course or way traveled
- Hungarian: útvonal — course or way traveled
- Icelandic: leið — course or way traveled
- Indonesian: rute — course or way traveled
- Ingrian: jooma — course or way traveled
- Irish: slí — course or way traveled
- Italian: rotta — course or way traveled
- Italian: percorso — course or way traveled
- Italian: itinerario — course or way traveled
- Japanese: 道筋 (michisuji) — course or way traveled
- Japanese: ルート (rūto) — course or way traveled
- Japanese: 路線 (rosen) — course or way traveled
- Japanese: 通路 (tsūro) — course or way traveled
- Kazakh: маршрут (marşrut) — course or way traveled
- Kazakh: бағыт (bağyt) — course or way traveled
- Kazakh: бағдар (bağdar) — course or way traveled
- Kazakh: жол (jol) — course or way traveled
- Khmer: មាគ៌ា (miəkiə) — course or way traveled
- Khmer: ផ្លូវ (phləw) — course or way traveled
- Khmer: អទ្ធាន (ʼatthiən) — course or way traveled
- Korean: 경로 (gyeongno) — course or way traveled
- Korean: 노선 (noseon) — course or way traveled
- Korean: 로선 (roseon) — course or way traveled
- Kyrgyz: маршрут (marşrut) — course or way traveled
- Kyrgyz: багыт (bagıt) — course or way traveled
- Kyrgyz: жол (jol) — course or way traveled
- Lao: ທາງ (thāng) — course or way traveled
- Lao: ເສັ້ນທາງ (sen thāng) — course or way traveled
- Latin: via — course or way traveled
- Latvian: maršruts — course or way traveled
- Latvian: ceļš — course or way traveled
- Latvian: trase — course or way traveled
- Lithuanian: maršrutas — course or way traveled
- Lithuanian: kelias — course or way traveled
- Lithuanian: trasa — course or way traveled
- Macedonian: маршру́та (maršrúta) — course or way traveled
- Macedonian: пат (pat) — course or way traveled
- Māori: ara — course or way traveled
- Māori: riunga — course or way traveled
- Mongolian: маршрут (maršrut) — course or way traveled
- Norwegian Bokmål: rute — course or way traveled
- Norwegian Bokmål: vei — course or way traveled
- Occitan: rota — course or way traveled
- Iranian Persian: مَسیر (masir) — course or way traveled
- Iranian Persian: راه (râh) — course or way traveled
- Polish: szlak — course or way traveled
- Polish: trasa — course or way traveled
- Portuguese: rota — course or way traveled
- Portuguese: percurso — course or way traveled
- Portuguese: caminho — course or way traveled
- Portuguese: itinerário — course or way traveled
- Romanian: rută — course or way traveled
- Romanian: drum — course or way traveled
- Romanian: traseu — course or way traveled
- Romanian: itinerar — course or way traveled
- Russian: маршру́т (maršrút) — course or way traveled
- Russian: курс (kurs) — course or way traveled
- Russian: путь (putʹ) — course or way traveled
- Russian: доро́га (doróga) — course or way traveled
- Russian: тра́сса (trássa) — course or way traveled
- Sanskrit: पथ (patha) — course or way traveled
- Sanskrit: मार्ग (mārga) — course or way traveled
- Scottish Gaelic: slighe — course or way traveled
- Serbo-Croatian: ма̀ршрӯта — course or way traveled
- Serbo-Croatian: пу̑т — course or way traveled
- Serbo-Croatian: цѐста — course or way traveled
- Serbo-Croatian: màršrūta — course or way traveled
- Serbo-Croatian: pȗt — course or way traveled
- Serbo-Croatian: cèsta — course or way traveled
- Slovak: trasa — course or way traveled
- Slovak: cesta — course or way traveled
- Slovak: dráha — course or way traveled
- Slovene: pot — course or way traveled
- Spanish: ruta — course or way traveled
- Spanish: itinerario — course or way traveled
- Swedish: rutt — course or way traveled
- Swedish: väg — course or way traveled
- Tagalog: yagban — course or way traveled
- Tajik: маршрут (maršrut) — course or way traveled
- Tajik: роҳ (roh) — course or way traveled
- Tajik: масир (masir) — course or way traveled
- Thai: ทาง (taang) — course or way traveled
- Thai: เส้นทาง (sên-taang) — course or way traveled
- Tonga (Zambia): nzila — course or way traveled
- Turkish: rota — course or way traveled
- Turkish: yol — course or way traveled
- Turkmen: marşrut — course or way traveled
- Turkmen: ýol — course or way traveled
- Ukrainian: маршру́т (maršrút) — course or way traveled
- Ukrainian: шлях (šljax) — course or way traveled
- Ukrainian: курс (kurs) — course or way traveled
- Ukrainian: тра́са (trása) — course or way traveled
- Ukrainian: доро́га (doróha) — course or way traveled
- Urdu: راہ (rāh) — course or way traveled
- Uyghur: يول (yol) — course or way traveled
- Uzbek: marshrut — course or way traveled
- Uzbek: yoʻl — course or way traveled
- Vietnamese: hành trình — course or way traveled
- Vietnamese: lộ trình — course or way traveled
- Bulgarian: курс (kurs) — passing, course, road
- Bulgarian: маршру́т (maršrút) — passing, course, road
- Czech: cesta — passing, course, road
- Dutch: route — passing, course, road
- Dutch: traject — passing, course, road
- Finnish: reitti — passing, course, road
- French: route — passing, course, road
- Georgian: კურსი (ḳursi) — passing, course, road
- German: Route — passing, course, road
- German: Straße — passing, course, road
- German: Weg — passing, course, road
- German: Pfad — passing, course, road
- Hindi: मार्ग (mārg) — passing, course, road
- Hungarian: útvonal — passing, course, road
- Hungarian: járat — passing, course, road
- Indonesian: rute — passing, course, road
- Ingrian: jooma — passing, course, road
- Irish: slí — passing, course, road
- Italian: via — passing, course, road
- Italian: strada — passing, course, road
- Korean: 길 (gil) — passing, course, road
- Malay: jajaran — passing, course, road
- Malay: laluan — passing, course, road
- Māori: ara — passing, course, road
- Māori: ararere — passing, course, road
- Portuguese: percurso — passing, course, road
- Russian: маршру́т (maršrút) — passing, course, road
- Russian: тра́сса (trássa) — passing, course, road
- Sanskrit: पथ (patha) — passing, course, road
- Sanskrit: मार्ग (mārga) — passing, course, road
- Scottish Gaelic: slighe — passing, course, road
- Telugu: మార్గము (mārgamu) — passing, course, road
- Thai: ทาง (taang) — passing, course, road
- Thai: ถนน (tà-nǒn) — passing, course, road
- Ukrainian: маршру́т (maršrút) — passing, course, road
- Ukrainian: тра́са (trása) — passing, course, road
- Vietnamese: tuyến đường — passing, course, road
- Armenian: ճանապարհ (čanaparh) — way to do something
- Chinese Mandarin: 作法 (zuòfǎ) — way to do something
- Chinese Mandarin: 手段 (shǒuduàn) — way to do something
- Czech: cesta — way to do something
- Dutch: weg — way to do something
- Finnish: tie — way to do something
- Finnish: reitti — way to do something
- Galician: xeito — way to do something
- Galician: camiño — way to do something
- Georgian: გზა (gza) — way to do something
- German: Weg — way to do something
- German: Pfad — way to do something
- Hungarian: út — way to do something
- Hungarian: mód — way to do something
- Italian: via — way to do something
- Italian: strada — way to do something
- Japanese: 手段 (shudan) — way to do something
- Korean: 수단 (sudan) — way to do something
- Māori: pēheatanga — way to do something
- Māori: pēwheatanga — way to do something
- Māori: ara — way to do something
- Polish: sposób — way to do something
- Portuguese: jeito — way to do something
- Portuguese: caminho — way to do something
- Russian: путь (putʹ) — way to do something
- Swedish: sätt — way to do something
- Ukrainian: шлях (šljax) — way to do something
- Finnish: reitti — (computer) an entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives
- Galician: ruta — (computer) an entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives
- Māori: ararere — (computer) an entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives
- Danish: togvej — path secured by a railway signalling system for the passage of a train
- Dutch: rijweg — path secured by a railway signalling system for the passage of a train
- French: itinéraire — path secured by a railway signalling system for the passage of a train
- German: Fahrstraße — path secured by a railway signalling system for the passage of a train
- Indonesian: relasi — path secured by a railway signalling system for the passage of a train
- Norwegian Bokmål: togvei — path secured by a railway signalling system for the passage of a train
- Czech: směrovat — to direct along a particular course
- Dutch: leiden — to direct along a particular course
- Dutch: sturen — to direct along a particular course
- Finnish: ohjata — to direct along a particular course
- Finnish: reitittää — to direct along a particular course
- Galician: encamiñar — to direct along a particular course
- Hungarian: irányít — to direct along a particular course
- Italian: avviare — to direct along a particular course
- Italian: instradare — to direct along a particular course
- Italian: dirigere — to direct along a particular course
- Polish: pokierować — to direct along a particular course
- Polish: wskazać kierunek — to direct along a particular course
- Romanian: îndruma — to direct along a particular course
- Romanian: direcționa — to direct along a particular course
- Russian: направлять (napravljatʹ) — to direct along a particular course
- Russian: направить (napravitʹ) — to direct along a particular course
- Spanish: enrutar — to direct along a particular course
- Spanish: encaminar — to direct along a particular course
- Ukrainian: направля́ти (napravljáty) — to direct along a particular course
- Ukrainian: напра́вити (naprávyty) — to direct along a particular course
- Finnish: reitittää — internet: to connect two LANs
- Italian: connettere — internet: to connect two LANs
- Italian: instradare — internet: to connect two LANs
- Polish: trasować — internet: to connect two LANs
- Portuguese: rotear — internet: to connect two LANs
- Romanian: ruta — internet: to connect two LANs
- Spanish: enrutar — internet: to connect two LANs
- Finnish: reitittää — computer: to send information via a router
- Māori: ararere — computer: to send information via a router
- Polish: trasować — computer: to send information via a router
- Spanish: enrutar — computer: to send information via a router
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