Kilo Lingo

/ruːt/

Line drawing of route
Coloured illustration of route
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Translation

The way you go from one place to another, and the roads you take on the way.

Word origin

From Old French rute, from a Latin phrase rupta via meaning a way cut or broken through a forest.

Origin
Old French
Root
rupta via
English cognates
rout, rupture

Grammar

Gender
Pluralroutes

Examples

quickest .

A route is the whole way there, not one road.

9 .

Buses and trains follow the same route every day.

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You can choose your route, and each one takes a different time.

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This word is part of lesson 40.