routes

nounpath over which someone or something travels

verbsend along a path

Word Origin & History

early 13c., from Old French rute "road, way, path" (12c.), from Latin rupta (via) "(a road) opened by force," from rupta, fem. past participle of rumpere "to break" (see rupture (n.)). Sense of "fixed or regular course for carrying things" (cf. mail route) is 1792, an extension of the meaning "customary path of animals" (early 15c.).

Example Sentences for routes

They had taken three routes, and consequently our army had to be divided too.

They separated here to set forth by two different 15 routes.

But beyond the Potomac public conveyances were few and uncertain in their routes.

The web is composed of all the routes which start from the coast and converge on Timbuktu.

He served on the rescue teams that patrol the busy Polar routes.

In Table of Contents the Routes are classified and explained.

The routes over which this enormous commerce was carried were few in number.

The atoll is known, but uncharted, because it is far outside the routes.

Therefore the fugitives could hope to reach the coast only by one of the routes named.

There were three routes, and some time elapsed before they decided upon one.

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noun path over which someone or something travels