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He had come by way of the Santa Fe route, and the people of Los Angeles had told him this route was an easy one being often traveled by saddle horses, and if the company could make it possible for wagons they could have all the cattle they wanted to kill along the road as their pay for doing the work.

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  1. noun A road, course, or way for travel from one place to another.
  2. noun A highway.
  3. noun A customary line of travel. See Synonyms at way.
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  • Every morning the route was the same; after exiting her apartment building, we would turn right and then a first turn left which lead to the main boulevard.
  • Mr Johnson denied reports that the route was to be diverted away from Parliament Square to Admiralty Arch. "I want to reassure everybody the route will be the same length as normal," he told LBC radio. —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
  • He denied reports that the route was to be diverted away from Parliament Square to Admiralty Arch. "I want to reassure everybody the route will be the same length as normal," he told LBC radio. —  BBC (UK) Homepage main promotional content
  • As the race's name makes clear the route is a run south from Liège to Bastogne before turning northwards and returning to Liège.
  • The addition of Rock Springs to the route is a result of low passenger demand, he said, and the move was necessary to keep the carrier in the region. —  Cheapflights.com Flight News
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path ·  location ·  channel ·  operation ·  network ·  facility ·  mission ·  approach ·  journey ·  target ·  area ·  port

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route:   routes ·  routing ·  routed
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin rupta (via), broken (road), feminine past participle of rumpere, to break; see rout1.

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  1. Now spelled route and usually pron. röt, after modern F.; historically the proper spelling is rout (rout), or, shortened, rut (rut), now used in a restricted sense (cf. rote, a fourth form of the same word); from Middle English route, rute, a way, course, track (see rut), from Old French route, rote, rute, a way, path, street, course, a glade in a wood, French route, a way, course, route, = Spanish rota, ruta = Portuguese rota (nautical), a way, course, from Middle Latin rupta, also, after Roman, rutta, rotta, rota, a way, path, orig. (sc. via) a way broken or cut through a forest, feminine of Latin ruptus, broken: see rout, rout.
 

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