route

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The way you take to get from one place to another.

   What's the quickest route to the airport?

2. 2
   noun

   A fixed series of stops, or the path followed between them, as for a bus or delivery.

   The new bus route stops right outside our house.

3. 3
   noun

   A way of achieving something; a method.

   Hard work is the surest route to success.

4. 4
   verb

   To send something along a particular path or course.

   All complaints are routed through the customer service team.

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.

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