route
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
route /ruːt/
▶noun
- 1 a way or course taken in getting from a starting point to a destination.
■ the line of a road, path, railway, etc.
- 2 N. Amer. a round travelled in delivering, selling, or collecting goods.
– origin ME: from OFr. rute ‘road’, from L. rupta (via) ‘broken (way)’, fem. past part. of rumpere.
'route' also found in these Oxford entries:
air corridor
- airway
- around
- arterial
- artery
- blaze
- bolt-hole
- bus
- bus stop
- bypass
- cable car
- call
- channel
- circuit
- circuitous
- climb
- coaching inn
- course
- detour
- devious
- direct
- diverge
- diversion
- divert
- en route
- fall line
- fast track
- feeder
- flyway
- follow
- fork
- greasy pole
- house
- Indian
- into
- itinerary
- lead
- line
- lose
- map
- marker
- milk round
- navigate
- packet switching
- paper round
- pass
- plot
- ply
- pursue
- re-route
