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route - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | route |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | path over which someone or something travels |
| Synonyms: | avenue, beat, beeline, circuit, course, detour, digression, direction, divergence, itinerary, journey, line, meandering, passage, pavement, pike, plot, program, rambling, range, road, round, run, tack, track, trail, wandering, way, byway, rounds, short cut |
| Notes: | a rout is a disorderly crowd of people or an overwhelming defeat; a root is the usually underground organ of a plant that lacks buds or leaves or nodes and absorbs water and mineral salts - or the form of a word after all affixes are removed; a route is an established line of travel or access - or a road, course, or way for travel from one place to another |
| Main Entry: | route |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | send along a path |
| Synonyms: | address, conduct, consign, convey, direct, dispatch, escort, forward, guide, lead, pilot, remit, see, shepherd, ship, show, steer, transmit |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep |
| Main Entry: | access |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | admission, means of entry, approach |
| Synonyms: | admittance, approach, avenue, connection, contact, course, door, entrance, entree, entry, ingress, introduction, key, open door*, passage, path, road, route, way, in, open arms |
| Antonyms: | egress, outlet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | artery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | channel |
| Synonyms: | avenue, boulevard, canal, conduit, corridor, course, duct, highway, line, passage, road, route, sewer, thoroughfare, track, tube, way, pathway |
| Main Entry: | avenue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | street; path |
| Synonyms: | access, alley, approach, boulevard, channel, course, drive, entrance, entry, exit, outlet, passage, promenade, road, route, thoroughfare, way, parkway, pathway |
| Main Entry: | channel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | direct, guide |
| Synonyms: | carry, conduct, convey, funnel, pipe, route, send, siphon, transmit, transport, traject |
| Main Entry: | circuit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | revolution, track, boundary |
| Synonyms: | ambit, area, circle, circulation, circumference, compass, course, cycle, district, journey, lap, limit, line, orbit, perimeter, periphery, range, region, round, route, tour, tract, turn, twirl, way, wheel, whirl, wind, winding, zone, bounds, circling, circumnavigation, circumscription, circumvolution, gyration, gyre, perambulation, turning |
| Main Entry: | communications |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | systems of information exchange |
| Synonyms: | information technology, means, media, public relations, publicity, route, transport, travel, telecommunications |
| Main Entry: | consign |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | entrust, hand over for care |
| Synonyms: | address, appoint, assign, authorize, commission, commit, confide, convey, delegate, deliver, dispatch, forward, give, issue, relegate, remit, route, send, ship, transfer, transmit, turn over, commend to, deposit with, put in charge of |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep, receive, retain |
| Main Entry: | escort |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | act as a companion, guard |
| Synonyms: | accompany, attend, bear, bring, carry, chaperon, company, conduct, convoy, date, direct, drag, guide, lead, partner, pilot, protect, route, see, shepherd, show, squire, steer, usher, consort with, go with, take out |
| Antonyms: | abandon, desert, drop, leave, lose, maroon, neglect |
| Main Entry: | fiasco |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | catastrophe |
| Synonyms: | abortion, blunder, breakdown, debacle, disaster, embarrassment, error, failure, farce, flap, flop, mess, miscarriage, route, ruin, stunt, washout*, botched situation, dumb thing to do, dumb trick, screwup |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, miracle, success, wonder |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | guide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | direct, lead |
| Synonyms: | accompany, advise, attend, beacon*, chaperon, command, conduct, contrive, control, convoy, counsel, educate, engineer, escort, govern, handle, influence, instruct, manage, maneuver, marshal, navigate, oversee, pilot, regulate, route, rule, see, shepherd, show, spearhead*, steer, superintend, supervise, sway, teach, train, usher, coxswain, have a handle on, quarterback, show the way, trailblaze |
| Antonyms: | abandon, leave, mislead, neglect, misguide |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | itinerary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plan of travel |
| Synonyms: | beat, circuit, course, guide, guidebook, journey, line, outline, path, program, route, run, schedule, tour, way |
| Main Entry: | journey |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excursion |
| Synonyms: | adventure, beat, campaign, caravan, circuit, constitutional, course, crossing, drive, expedition, exploration, hike, itinerary, jaunt, junket, march, migration, odyssey, outing, passage, patrol, peregrination, pilgrimage, progress, promenade, quest, ramble, range, roaming, round, route, run, safari, sally, saunter, sojourn, stroll, survey, tour, tramp, transit, transmigration, travel, traveling, traverse, trek, trip, vagrancy, venture, visit, voyage, wandering, wayfaring, airing, vagabondage |
| Main Entry: | lane |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | road |
| Synonyms: | alley, artery, avenue, boulevard, drive, expressway, highway, passage, route, street, thoroughfare, turnpike, back street, byway, parkway, pathway, roadway, throughway, thruway |
| Main Entry: | ledge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shelf |
| Synonyms: | bar, bench, bracket, console, edge, jut, mantle, offset, path, projection, reef, ridge, rim, route, step, strip, tier, track, trail, walk, way, berm, sill |
| Main Entry: | path |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | course, way |
| Synonyms: | aisle, artery, avenue, beat, boulevard, direction, drag, footpath, groove, highway, lane, line, pass, passage, procedure, rail, road, route, rut, shortcut, street, stroll, terrace, thoroughfare, track, trail, walk, beaten path, byway, crosscut, pathway, roadway, walkway |
| Antonyms: | blockage |
| Main Entry: | road |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | path upon which travel occurs |
| Synonyms: | alley, artery, asphalt, avenue, boulevard, concrete, course, crossroad, direction, drag*, drive, expressway, highway, lane, line, main drag*, parking lot*, passage, pavement, pike, route, street, subway, terrace, thoroughfare, track, trail, turnpike, viaduct, way, back street, byway, cobblestone, dragway, parkway, pathway, roadway, throughway, thruway |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ship |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | send, transport |
| Synonyms: | address, consign, direct, dispatch, drop, embark, export, forward, freight, haul, move, remit, route, shift, smuggle, transfer, transmit, go aboard, put on board, ship out |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep |
| Main Entry: | steer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | guide, direct on a course |
| Synonyms: | be in the driver's seat, beacon, captain, conduct, control, drive, escort, govern, head for, helm, herd, lead, pilot, point, route, run, run things, see, shepherd, show, skipper*, take over, take the helm, take the reins |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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