Usually means: Path or way for travel.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word route:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. route: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. route: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. route: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. route: Collins English Dictionary
  5. route: Vocabulary.com
  6. Route, route: Wordnik
  7. Route, route: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. route: Wiktionary
  9. route: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. route: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. route: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. route: Dictionary.com
  13. route: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. route: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Route (American football), Route (command), Route (gridiron football), Route, The Route: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Route: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. route: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. route: Rhymezone
  19. Route (f), route, route (de), route (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. route: Free Dictionary
  21. route: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. route: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. route: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Route: eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary
  3. route: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. route: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. route: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. route: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Route: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. route: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. route: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. route: Printed Circuit Design and Manufacturing Glossary
  3. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of PCB Terms (No longer online)
  5. Semiconductor Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A course or way which is traveled or passed.
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:  (figuratively) One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
noun:  (historical) One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
noun:  (computing) A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.
noun:  (horse racing) A race longer than one mile.
noun:  (railway) 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.
verb:  (transitive) To direct or divert along a particular course.
verb:  (Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.
verb:  (computing, transitive) To send (information) through a router.
noun:  A surname from French.
verb:  Eye dialect spelling of root. [To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.]

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