ROUTES Synonyms: 123 Similar and Opposite Words

routes 1 of 2

noun

plural of route

as in roads

a passage cleared for public vehicular travel take Route 190 for six miles, then get off

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Relevance

as in paths

an established course for traveling from one place to another we're going to get stuck in traffic if we take the usual route

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as in ways

the direction along which something or someone moves hurricanes generally take a northerly route up the Atlantic seaboard

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routes

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of route

as in guides

to point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front the guide routed us smoothly through the jungle

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Noun

The service, started by South Florida transit firm Prokel Mobility, features two routes. — Amaia Gavica, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026 The Viceroy Seaglider is designed to travel at up to 180 mph on routes of up to 180 miles. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026 According to advanced fielding metrics, no player in the league made a bigger defensive contribution to his team than the Braves center fielder, an elite defender with a strong arm who takes clean routes to the ball. — Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026 Dwyer generated multiple chunk plays on vertical routes and routinely won his matchup against UCF’s secondary. — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Oct. 2026 By adapting delivery routes as climate and conflict conditions change, the tool could cut cost per child by 25% while surfacing 10 to 20% more children. — Jeannie Annan, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026 One of these routes takes travelers out of the country, and will become a year-round option. — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2026 Airlines have been adding new lounges, extra premium seats and more international routes to lure those high-spenders. — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2026 Ishmita Shah, a roads engineer, said crews have been working with Nepal's army since the second day after the floods to reopen routes in affected areas. — ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026

Verb

The grid constantly senses where demand is rising and routes power to meet it, drawing on every point in the network to decide or predict where energy should go to optimize supply, cost efficiency and customer delivery. — Thomas Zawacki, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026 The organization collects footwear and clothing donations and routes them toward reuse channels. — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2026 That means if Robinhood routes bets on Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen to throw for at least 300 passing yards through OG’s exchange, the brokerage app wouldn’t be taking anything away from Rothera, which has never offered that type of wager. — Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 10 Sep. 2026 To establish this metric, the system processes daily historical records from the US Geological Survey’s stream gage network alongside Dayflow, an Oak Ridge dataset that routes runoff across American river channels. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026 The lymphatic system collects that fluid from your tissues and routes it through a network of vessels, nodes and organs running parallel to the circulatory system throughout nearly the entire body, per StatPearls. — Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 29 June 2026 Charter routes much of the traffic through its Wi-Fi networks. — Kelcee Griffis, Fortune, 27 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for routes

Noun

As the hundreds of thousands of people made their way down the narrow roads following the politician, a few rerouted into the industry event, still carrying big flags and with faces lit up with hope.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
The landscape was inspired by the inland town of Ioulida, a hilltop village with cascading residential dwellings and winding paths (no car-worthy roads), and a church perched at the precipice.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of roads

Noun

Through quests, combat, exploration and cooperative adventures, players can forge their own paths through the medieval fantasy world of Gielinor.

— Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026
Oracular methods such as automatism and tarot cards would lead Colquhoun down many paths in her search for knowledge, while the duality of the androgyne fascinated her in her art and writing.

— Marina Warner, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of paths

Noun

As a market-maker and pioneer, L’Oréal Professionnel needs to innovate in technical and technological ways others cannot, according to Le Bleis.

— Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026
By pinpointing what is killing the calves, researchers hope to find ways to protect the vulnerable population.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of ways

Verb

Her startling novel guides us through the Stettheimer sisters’ fabulous world and the interior spaces of a troubled woman’s mind.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026
Trask, who grow up under the demanding eye of father Cyrus (Tracy Letts), a one-legged Civil War hero who guides them with military rigor.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of guides

Noun

Parcels of agricultural land surrounded on a certain percentage of their borders by homes, businesses, highways or land zoned for future development can apply for the designation.

— Nico Rivero, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026
It’s been used to raise funds for Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, a Minnesota woman caught using a racist slur on camera and to support Canadian truckers who blocked highways in protest of Covid restrictions.

— David K. Li, NBC news, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of highways

Noun

Accessibility There’s wheelchair access to the ground floor rooms & garden, with paths around the property to access the restaurant, although the gravel pathways are not ideal for wheelchairs.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
As potential homebuyers in California weigh some very expensive housing options, they are often steered toward condominiums — one of the most affordable pathways to becoming a homeowner in the United States.

— Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026

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