What does route mean?
Definitions for route
rut, raʊtroute
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word route.
Princeton's WordNet
path, route, itinerarynoun
an established line of travel or access
road, routeverb
an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
routeverb
send documents or materials to appropriate destinations
routeverb
send via a specific route
routeverb
divert in a specified direction
"divert the low voltage to the engine cylinders"
Wiktionary
routenoun
A course or way which is traveled or passed.
routenoun
A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
routenoun
A road or path; often specifically a highway.
Follow Route 49 out of town.
routenoun
An option for how to solve a given problem or achieve a given goal: a method, a way, a path, an approach.
routeverb
To direct or divert along a particular course.
All incoming mail was routed through a single office.
routeverb
to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet
Etymology: route, rote
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
ChatGPT
route
A route is a path or course that is planned or designated for movement from one place to another. This can involve various means of transportation such as driving, walking, cycling, or even flying. Routes can be followed for traveling or delivering goods.
Webster Dictionary
Routenoun
the course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march
Etymology: [OE. & F. route, OF. rote, fr. L. rupta (sc. via), fr. ruptus, p. p. of rumpere to break; hence, literally, a broken or beaten way or path. See Rout, and cf. Rut a track.]
Wikidata
Route
A route in a geographic information system (GIS) is: ⁕Any line feature, such as a street, highway, river, or pipe, that has a unique identifier. ⁕A path through a network.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Route
rōōt, n. a course to be traversed: a line of march: road: track.—n. Route′-step, an order of march in which soldiers are not required to keep step.—Star route, in the United States, a post route by means other than steam, the blank contracts for which have three groups of four stars. [Fr.,—L. rupta (via), 'a broken way.']
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
route
The prescribed course to be traveled from a specific point of origin to a specific destination. See also controlled route; dispatch route; lateral route; reserved route; supervised route.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
route
The order for the movement of a body of men, specifying its various stages and dates of march.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
route
An open road; the course of march of troops. Instructions for the march of detachments, specifying daily marches, means of supply, etc., are given from the headquarters of an army in the field, and are called marching routes.
Editors Contribution
route
A specific and known way of travel.
The route finder was easy to use.
Submitted by MaryC on March 8, 2020
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
ROUTE
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Route is ranked #40432 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Route surname appeared 541 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Route.
47.3% or 256 total occurrences were White.
45.4% or 246 total occurrences were Black.
3.8% or 21 total occurrences were Asian.
2.2% or 12 total occurrences were of two or more races.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'route' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1880
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'route' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1728
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'route' in Nouns Frequency: #609
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Anagrams for route »
outer
outre
outré
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of route in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of route in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of route in a Sentence
Conventional wisdom says take the closest exit, but that doesn't always work at concerts because that's where the crush is. You want to know where all exits are because exits farther away may be better. You don't want to follow the crowd surge going one route.
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
On April 14, a U.S. Air Force RC-135 aircraft flying a routine route in international airspace over the Baltic Sea was intercepted by a Russian Su-27 in an unsafe and unprofessional manner, this intercept comes shortly after the unsafe Russian encounters with USS Donald Cook.
Since we have our own team in Budapest, we’ve been able to switch from rail to road on route to Vienna as required, beyond that manageable change, we’ve had no disruption to our current operations.
Hop Tropic was the only beer that we were brewing for draft sales in the first two months of this pandemic, everything else was in [ cans and bottles ] because that was only the route to market for most craft breweries.
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- طريقArabic
- rutaCatalan, Valencian
- trasa, směrovat, cestaCzech
- Pfad, Weg, Route, StraßeGerman
- ΔιαδρομήGreek
- irvojo, vojiro, vojo, itineroEsperanto
- rutaSpanish
- ohjata, reitti, tie, reitittääFinnish
- route, cheminFrench
- sligheScottish Gaelic
- útHungarian
- երթուղի, ճանապարհArmenian
- instradare, via, percorso, connettere, avviare, strada, dirigereItalian
- 通路, 道筋, ルート, 路線, 手段Japanese
- გზა, კურსიGeorgian
- 경로, 노선, 길Korean
- ara, pēwheatanga, pēheatanga, riungaMāori
- sturen, leidenDutch
- ruteNorwegian
- sposóbPolish
- rotear, caminho, rota, percurso, jeitoPortuguese
- путь, дорога, трасса, маршрут, курсRussian
- rotaTurkish
- 路线Chinese
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