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noun

route

CEFR B2

an established line of travel or access

In a sentence

Six example sentences with route, each labelled with its topic.

  • The overnight bus follows a mountain route that has carried traders over the same three passes for two centuries.

    Travel

  • Her Sunday running route loops twice around the reservoir and finishes on the hill behind the old railway station.

    Fitness

  • Caravans wore a trading route across the desert so deeply that satellite images still show the track today.

    History

  • Cranes follow the same migration route each autumn, resting at three wetlands their grandparents also used.

    Environment

  • Packets take the shortest route across the network, and the map changes whenever a link goes down.

    Technology

  • The delivery route covers sixty stops before noon, and the driver knows which gates stick in the cold.

    Business

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