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route

Audio Help [root, rout] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, rout·ed, rout·ing.

–noun

1.	a course, way, or road for passage or travel: What's the shortest route to Boston?

2.	a customary or regular line of passage or travel: a ship on the North Atlantic route.

3.	a specific itinerary, round, or number of stops regularly visited by a person in the performance of his or her work or duty: a newspaper route; a mail carrier's route.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to fix the route of: to route a tour.

5.	to send or forward by a particular route: to route mail to its proper destination.

—Idiom

go the route, Informal.

a.	to see something through to completion: It was a tough assignment, but he went the route.

b.	Baseball. to pitch the complete game: The heat and humidity were intolerable, but the pitcher managed to go the route.

[Origin: 1175–1225; ME: way, course < OF < L rupta (via) broken (road), fem. ptp. of rumpere to break; cf. rout¹

]

—Synonyms 3. beat, circuit.

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	Synonym Collection v1.1	Cite This Source
Main Entry:	route
Part of Speech:	verb
Synonyms:	beat, channel, circuit, course, detour, direction, guide, highway, lane, line, passage, path, pilot, road, send, ship, track, trail, turnpike, way, beeline, itinerary, parkway, rounds
Source:	Synonym Collection v1.1 Copyright © 2008 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.

	Roget's II: The New Thesaurus	Cite This Source
Main Entry:	beat
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	An area regularly covered, as by a policeman or reporter.
Synonyms:	circuit, round
Source:	Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

	Roget's II: The New Thesaurus	Cite This Source
Main Entry:	guide
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	To show the way to.
Synonyms:	conduct, direct, escort, lead, pilot, shepherd, show, steer, usher
Source:	Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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Northern Sea Route, Russia: see Northeast Passage.

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