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noun

ˈrüt How to pronounce route (audio)
Definition of routenext
1
as in road
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel take Route 190 for six miles, then get off

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Relevance
2
as in path
an established course for traveling from one place to another we're going to get stuck in traffic if we take the usual route

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3
as in way
the direction along which something or someone moves hurricanes generally take a northerly route up the Atlantic seaboard

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route

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verb

as in to guide
to point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front the guide routed us smoothly through the jungle

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Recent Examples of route
Noun
The city has opted to go the leasing route rather than purchasing a new fleet. — Tess Riski july 24, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026 It was instructed to solve a cybersecurity benchmark and independently determined that breaking into another company offered a route to the answers. — Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 23 July 2026
Verb
One implementation may be a software layer that can intake prompts and automatically route them to the appropriate model. — Paul Keary, Fortune, 23 July 2026 Also like Toyota’s rally machines, the MR2 is expected to route that power to all four wheels. — Adam Ismail, The Drive, 22 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for route
Recent Examples of Synonyms for route
  1. road
  2. path
  3. way
  4. guide
  5. highway
  6. approach
  7. steer
  8. thoroughfare
Noun
  • What’s different this time is getting to the Diner, as both Santa Monica Blvd (which the Diner faces) and Sunset Blvd are seeing extended road work – some of it due to a water main that burst on July 16.
    — Brooke Crothers, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Two Boston city councilors are pushing for a change in city law that would require Mayor Michelle Wu to report street projects annually as Wu faces criticism for stalling road work before a city employee was killed by a truck.
    — Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 22 July 2026
Definition of road
Noun
  • New Zealand’s biosecurity minister has warned that the country will follow a similar path, should a widespread outbreak occur.
    — Todd Symons, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
  • The incident also demonstrated that models can potentially identify and exploit novel attack paths without direct access to an organization’s source code.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 July 2026
Definition of path
Noun
  • The entire industry has struggled to converge in the way credit-rating agencies generally do.
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • But the way the Panthers had their depth chart set up — signing Walker as well as tackle Stone Forsyth in free agency — playing immediately didn’t necessarily have to be in the cards for Freeling.
    — Alex Zietlow July 23, Charlotte Observer, 23 July 2026
Definition of way
Verb
  • On Joseph’s team, Aaron says the Gullah Geechee people and their deftness with indigo dye are guiding the designers’ shades of blue.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 July 2026
  • OpenAI has said its ChatGPT program is trained to recognize signs of emotional distress, de-escalate situations, and guide users to real-life support.
    — Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 23 July 2026
Definition of guide
Noun
  • As a result, industrial and off-highway vehicles represent one of the most significant and underappreciated opportunities in electrification today.
    — Darren Tan, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • As cars and roads multiplied, accidents began to pile up; by the mid-sixties, there were more than fifty thousand fatal highway accidents per year.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Definition of highway
Noun
  • After witnessing the same families repeatedly return to his courtroom across generations, Judge Langer sought a new preventive approach that would support young parents in foster care.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
  • At another MetroLoft project, 25 Water Street, Berman and a co-developer had taken a radical approach to breaking up the interior space of a hulking building that once housed offices belonging to JPMorgan Chase.
    — Andrew Rice, Curbed, 23 July 2026
Definition of approach
Verb
  • The source also said the ESPN cuts are nowhere near the scale of the 2023 layoffs, which saw a number of recognizable on-air names depart amid a cost-savings effort steered by former Disney CEO Bob Iger.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 21 July 2026
  • Torre, meanwhile, would serve as dungeon master, steering the gang through exhibit after exhibit.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 21 July 2026
Definition of steer
Noun
  • Minus the dull thud of the boats gently colliding with the wooden posts they’re tied to, the normally busy thoroughfare is quiet.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 19 July 2026
  • Officials in La Grange are looking at how to improve one of the main thoroughfares in town.
    — Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2026
Definition of thoroughfare

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