route
/ɹʉːt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.67 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
noun
A road or path; often specifically a highway.
noun
One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
noun
One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
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.
Example Sentences
- "The route was used so much that it formed a rut."
- "You need to find a route that you can take between these two obstacles."
- "I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing."
- "It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted."
- "We live near the bus route."
- "Here is a map of our delivery routes."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹʉːt/
- British English: /ɹuːt/