En route - 6 dictionary results
en route
[ahn root, en; Fr. ahn root] 
–noun
| on the way: The plane crashed en route from Cairo to Athens. |
Origin:
1770–80; < F
1770–80; < F
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Language Translation for : En route
| Spanish: | de camino, | German: | unterwegs, | Japanese: | 途中で |
| en route
(ŏn rōōt', ěn) Pronunciation Key
adv. & adj. On or along the way: We are en route to the museum. The store is en route. [French : en, on + route, route.] |
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| en route | |
adverb | |
| on a route to some place; "help is on the way"; "we saw him on the way to California" [syn: on the way] |
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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en route
On or along the way, as in We'll pick up Dan en route to the restaurant, or We can finish our discussion en route. This French term was adopted into English in the late 1700s.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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En route
En` route"\ [F.] On the way or road.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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