	Site Map \| FAQ in Daily Almanac for May 27, 2012
Skip Navigation Home Asian Pacific American Heritage Atlas Encyclopedia Dictionary Thesaurus Features Quizzes Timelines Countries

Fact Monster Kid's reference,
games, quizzes

Editor's Favorites

| Share

Dictionary

route

Pronunciation: (rOOt, rout), [key]
—n., v., rout•ed, rout•ing.

—n.
1. a course, way, or road for passage or travel: What's the shortest route to Boston?
2. a customary or regular line of passage or travel: a ship on the North Atlantic route.
3. a specific itinerary, round, or number of stops regularly visited by a person in the performance of his or her work or duty: a newspaper route; a mail carrier's route.
4. go the route, Informal.
a. to see something through to completion: It was a tough assignment, but he went the route.
b. Baseball.to pitch the complete game: The heat and humidity were intolerable, but the pitcher managed to go the route.

—v.t.
1. to fix the route of: to route a tour.
2. to send or forward by a particular route: to route mail to its proper destination.

rout

routeman

See also:

route (Thesaurus)

Dictionary

route

Related Content