route Meaning & Definition

Synonyms of Route

Antonyms of Route

Route in a Sentence

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.

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.

Follow Route 49 out of town.

All incoming mail was routed through a single office.

The cuttings are starting to root.

We rooted some cuttings last summer.

I want to root my Android phone so I can remove the preinstalled crapware.

A pig roots the earth for truffles.

rooting about in a junk-filled drawer

I'm rooting for you, don't let me down!

the main route north

The route to social mobility …

courses that are the route to graduate school

air routes

took the scenic route

You could choose a different route and reach the same conclusion.

I decided to go/take the traditional route and have a big wedding.

a newspaper route

was routed along the scenic shore road

the attack and the rout that followed

The game turned into a rout.

After the second quarter, the rout was on. =the game became a rout

… the discomfiture of seeing their party routed at the polls …

pigs routing in the earth

… scouts … routing out new talent.

take Route 190 for six miles, then get off

we're going to get stuck in traffic if we take the usual route

hurricanes generally take a northerly route up the Atlantic seaboard

the guide routed us smoothly through the jungle

as expected, the professional team had no trouble routing the amateurs

the nation's ground and air forces quickly routed the would-be invaders

the championship game was a humiliating rout for the team that had been favored to win

in the mad rout from the school shooter, it was every person for himself

a great rout of rubberneckers had gathered around the scene of the accident

at first the protests were dismissed as nothing more than the idle doings of the restless rout

if you give me some time, I can probably rout out more supplies

The route to social mobility … / courses that are the route to graduate school

took the scenic route / You could choose a different route and reach the same conclusion. / I decided to go/take the traditional route and have a big wedding.

The game turned into a rout. / After the second quarter, the rout was on. =the game became a rout

Word Forms & Grammar

go the traditional route

go/take the traditional route

goes the traditional route

going the traditional route

rout

route

routes

take the traditional route

takes the traditional route

taking the traditional route

took the traditional route

went the traditional route

rout·ed

rout·ing

routed

routing

routs

the rout is on

the rout was on

rout (out)

rout out

route (plural routes)

route (third-person singular simple present routes, present participle routeing or (sometimes in US) routing, simple past and past participle routed)

Words That Rhyme With Route

Origin of Route

Origin 1: Middle English rute, route, borrowed from Anglo-French rute, going back to Vulgar Latin *rupta (short for *rupta via, literally, "broken way, forced passage," after Latin viam rumpere "to force a passage"), from feminine of ruptus, past participle of rumpere "to break, burst," going back to Indo-European *ru-n-p-, nasal present formation from the base *reu̯p- "break, tear" reave

Origin 2: derivative of route:1

Origin 3: borrowed from Middle French route "defeat, disorderly retreat," noun derivative from feminine of rout, alternate past participle of rompre "to defeat, put to flight," literally, "to break, smash," going back to Old French, going back to Latin rumpere route:1

Origin 4: derivative of rout:1

Origin 5: Middle English route "group, band of soldiers, crowd," borrowed from Anglo-French route, rute "band, herd, armed force," going back to Vulgar Latin *rupta "detachment," literally, "something broken off," going back to Latin, feminine of ruptus, past participle of rumpere "to break" route:1

Origin 6: presumed to be variant of wroot, root:3 (though alteration of vowel is unexplained)

Origin 7: 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. Unrelated to road.

First Known Use

13th century

1832

1595

circa 1600

circa 1564i