<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a course, way, or road for passage or travel: What's the shortest route to Boston?</li><li>a customary or regular line of passage or travel: There's a ship from our company on the North Atlantic route.</li><li>a specific itinerary, round, or number of stops regularly visited by a person in the performance of their work or duty: a newspaper route; a mail carrier's route.</li><li>Synonyms: circuit, beat</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>routed, routing: to set the path of: to route a tour.</li><li>to send or forward by a particular course or road: It's the post office's job to route mail to its proper destination.</li></ul>