Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb & adjective On or along the way.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • On the way; upon the road.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • On the way or road.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective On the way.
  • adjective along the way;

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb on a route to some place

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French : en, on + route, route.]

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French en ("on") + route ("route")

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