route

route¹ W2 [ru:t US ru:t, raut] n

[Date: 1100-1200; : Old French; Origin: Vulgar Latin rupta (via) 'broken way', from Latin ruptus 'broken']

1.) a way from one place to another

route to/from

▪ What's the best route to Cambridge?

take/follow a route

(=use a route)

▪ We weren't sure about which route we should take.

▪ the most direct route home

2.) a way between two places that buses, planes, ships etc regularly travel

bus/air/shipping etc route

▪ Is your office on a bus route?

cycle route

(=a way between two places that only people on bicycles can use)

3.) a way of doing something or achieving a particular result

route to

▪ the surest route to disaster

▪ Kennedy arrived at the same conclusion by a different route.

4.) Route 66/54 etc

used to show the number of a main road in the US

→paper route

route ²

route² v [T]

to send something somewhere using a particular route

route sth through/via sth

▪ They had to route the goods through Germany.

→↑re-route