a road, path, or course that you follow to travel from one place to another
The hiking guide showed us the easiest route to the waterfall.
Buses on this route leave every fifteen minutes.
✦ Borrowed from French "route", from Latin "rupta (via)" meaning "broken (way)", referring to a cleared road.
a particular way of achieving or doing something
Hard work is often the surest route to success.
The company chose the digital route to reach younger customers.
to send or direct something along a particular path
The operator routed my call to the technical department.
Emails are automatically routed through the spam filter.
