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route (s), routes (pl) (nouns)
1. A course, a road, or a way that is taken in order to get from a starting point to a destination: "The most direct route to work is via the express way."

"Although John and his family knew that the express way was the shortest route, they decided to take the more scenic route."

2. Etymology: from Middle English, from Old French route, "road, way, path"; from Vulgar Latin rupta (via) from rumpere, "to break".
—Dr. Ernest Klein,
A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language,
Elsevier Publishing Company, New York, 1966.
This entry is located in the following unit: rupt-, -rupting, -ruption (page 5)
route, routes; routed; routing (verbs)
This entry is located in the following unit: rupt-, -rupting, -ruption (page 5)