route

Academic Word List, sublist 9.

About 28.29 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A course or way which is traveled or passed.

   The route was used so much that it formed a rut.

2. noun A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.

   We live near the bus route.

3. noun A road or path; often specifically a highway.

   Follow Route 49 out of town.

4. noun One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
5. noun One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
6. noun A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.
7. noun A race longer than one mile.
8. noun A path that has been secured by a railway signalling system for the passage of a train and locked to prevent any conflicting train movements from taking place.

Similar words

path road itinerary roadmap way thoroughfare travel tour trajectory pathway

Often followed by

to of from for is and was through in

Word family

go the traditional route go/take the traditional route goes the traditional route going the traditional route rout routed routes routing take the traditional route takes the traditional route