en route
Use En route in a sentence
noun
on the way: The plane crashed en route from Cairo to Athens.
Origin:
1770–80; < French
1770–80; < French
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en route (ɒn ˈruːt, French ɑ̃ rut) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adv | |
| on or along the way; on the road | |
| [C18: from French] | |
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En route
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Idioms & Phrases
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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Example sentences
My truck arrived at my destination a day or two late because the driver ended up quitting while en route to the destination.
Every outgoing train is crowded with tourists en route to their city homes or the mountain resorts.
Contact the programs you have applied to and explain that the test scores are en route.
Sometimes there could be several waybills en route to a treasure.
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