n. A way; road; path; space for passage.n. A way or course of transit; a line of travel, passage, or progression; the course passed or to be passed over in reaching a destination, or (by extension) an object or a purpose; as a legal or engineering term, the horizontal direction along and near the surface of the earth of a way or course, as a road, a railway, or a canal, occupied or to be occupied for travel.n. An obsolete form of rout, rout, rout, rout.n. An order for a route march.To determine the route or line of transportation or travel of (goods, immigrants, etc.).