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

Local governments can evaluate where these machines operate and whether particular routes create safety hazards. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026 Before any aid moves, mines will be cleared on the routes into the city, Lubinets said. — ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026 The 151 MWh system is central to the design, bringing large-scale battery storage into a containership intended for regional routes. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026 The most direct routes to San Francisco and the East and South bays do not involve utilizing Highway 37. — Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026 Accessibility The property has accessible elevators, accessible areas with routes from the main entrance, and accessible entries to the hotel pool and fitness center. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026 Painfully high gas prices are diversifying production, opening new routes and increasing investments in renewables. — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2026 Riders should plan to allow extra time over the weekend, and may want to consider alternate routes. — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 One of the first to try on that hat was the agency's Perseverance rover on Mars, which used machine learning to plan and complete its first drive on the Red Planet using routes mapped out by generative AI in December 2025. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2026

Verb

The mill is mated to an eight-speed ZF automatic gearbox which routes power to all four wheels, of course. — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2026 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

Kyiv has accused Russian forces of mining nearby roads and using the remaining residents as human shields to prevent Ukraine’s army from conducting offensive operations in the town.

— Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 27 Oct. 2026
Response teams are battling armed conflict, poor roads and violence from residents fueled by mistrust and misinformation.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of roads

Noun

The company has been stretching to meet customers’ needs and was reviewing different financial paths to expand production and become more competitive, Solidigm said in a statement Friday.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2026
Plazas and landscaped paths create room to pause between destinations.

— Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of paths

Verb

School board trustees are elected volunteers who shape district budgets and policies and hire a superintendent who guides day-to-day decisions.

— Sophia Veneziano, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Oct. 2026
Over the years, Best of Beauty became the seal that guides hands across shelves by empowering Allure readers with the knowledge of what makes a product great… long before the advent of social media and the ubiquitous #GRWM.

— Hunter Lacey, Allure, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of guides

Noun

By exchanging ownership, McCall would be able to implement more pedestrian safety measures, such as bike lanes and walking routes that are not standard for state highways, Youmans said.

— Harllie Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 21 Oct. 2026
Critically, these investments also improve North Carolina roads, highways, and bridges.

— Kevin Blackwell, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of highways

Noun

Together, these approaches transformed the fight against a disease that once caused widespread paralysis and outbreaks, particularly among children.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
From mass arrests in France to troop deployments in Italy, European leaders are taking varied approaches to protests and clashes across the continent.

— Amanda Macias, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of approaches

Noun

Its faster trial infrastructure, its more integrated translational pathways, and its willingness to link industrial strategy to health delivery hold lessons for governments around the world.

— Ruby Wang, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Even alternative pathways, such as adoption, surrogacy, or gamete or embryo donation, can cost a small fortune.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of pathways

Verb

The band frequently steers the poppy songwriting offroad by leaning into distortion and ambience, creating moments of both near-mania and hazy unease.

— Sue Park, Pitchfork, 22 Oct. 2026
Allen, who serves as founder, chairman and CEO of Allen Media Group, steers a portfolio that covers TV, film, streaming and broadcast with The Weather Channel, HBCUGO, TheGrio Television Network, BuzzFeed and HuffPost.

— Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of steers

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