## Meanings
1. The way you take to get from one place to another.
2. A fixed series of stops, or the path followed between them, as for a bus or delivery.
3. A way of achieving something; a method.
4. To send something along a particular path or course.

## Examples
- What's the quickest route to the airport?
- The new bus route stops right outside our house.
- Hard work is the surest route to success.
- All complaints are routed through the customer service team.

## Derived Forms
- downroute
- euroroute
- misroute
- multiroute
- preroute
- reroute
- routability
- routable
- route-march
- route-one
- routeless
- routeman

## Related Forms
- bridge
- lan
- wan

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *Hrewp-
- Root: route
- Root: rote
- Root: rupta via

## 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.

## AI Etymology
Route comes 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. Modern senses include the way you take to get from one place to another. and a fixed series of stops, or the path followed between them, as for a bus or delivery.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as downroute, euroroute, misroute, multiroute, preroute, and reroute and related forms such as bridge, lan, and wan.

## Topics
- Travel
- Transportation

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