English Explanatory Dictionary

route

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A course or way which is traveled or passed.
  2. A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
  3. A road or path; often specifically a highway.
  4. One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
  5. One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
  6. A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.
  7. A race longer than one mile.
  8. 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
  1. To direct or divert along a particular course.
  2. to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.
  3. To send (information) through a router.
verb
  1. Eye dialect spelling of root.
name
  1. A surname from French.

Pronunciation

ro͞ot /ɹuːt/ /ɹʉːt/ /ɹut/ en-us-route-2.ogg /ɾuːt/ /ɾʉt/ /ɹʉt/ rout /ɹaʊt/ en-us-route.ogg /ɹʌʊt/

Word forms

route routes routeing routing routed

Etymology

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.

Related words

bridge LAN WAN

Derived words

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

Translations

Bulgarian: курс Bulgarian: маршру́т Czech: cesta Dutch: route Dutch: traject Finnish: reitti French: route Georgian: კურსი German: Route German: Straße German: Weg German: Pfad Hindi: मार्ग Hungarian: útvonal Hungarian: járat Indonesian: rute Ingrian: jooma Irish: slí Italian: via Italian: strada Korean: 길 Malay: jajaran Malay: laluan Māori: ara Māori: ararere Portuguese: percurso Russian: маршру́т Russian: тра́сса Sanskrit: पथ Sanskrit: मार्ग Scottish Gaelic: slighe Telugu: మార్గము Thai: ทาง Thai: ถนน Ukrainian: маршру́т Ukrainian: тра́са Vietnamese: tuyến đường
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