ROUTE
What does "ROUTE" mean?
A way or course taken to get from a starting point to a destination.
Meanings
- A path or course of travel between two places. We took the scenic route along the coast.
- A fixed circuit covered regularly, as for deliveries. The mail carrier finished her route by noon.
- To send or direct along a particular path. The system routes each call to an available agent.
Did you know?
- A 'route' is literally a 'broken way': it comes from Latin 'rupta via', the path that was cut or forced through the wilderness - the same 'rupt' root behind 'rupture' and 'interrupt'.
Word origin
From Old French 'rute' (way, path), from Latin 'rupta (via)', literally 'a broken (way)' - a road cut through terrain.
Remember it
ROUTE and ROOT sound alike (both 'root' in many accents): your route is the path your journey takes root along.
A little poem
Two roads on the map-
one shorter, one along the sea.
The detour is the trip.
haiku
Wordplay
- The delivery driver and the network engineer argued all day about the best route - turns out they were both just trying to avoid traffic.
What it teaches
Every route is a 'broken way' someone forced first - the easiest path you take was once a wilderness to someone else.
Quick facts
What does ROUTE mean?
A way or course taken to get from a starting point to a destination.
Is ROUTE a valid word?
Yes — ROUTE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is ROUTE?
ROUTE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does ROUTE come from?
From Old French 'rute' (way, path), from Latin 'rupta (via)', literally 'a broken (way)' - a road cut through terrain.
What can ROUTE teach us?
Every route is a 'broken way' someone forced first - the easiest path you take was once a wilderness to someone else.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.