en route

[ahn root, en, ahn root]

adverb

1. on the way.

   The plane crashed en route from Cairo to Athens.

en route

/ ɑ̃ rut, ɒn ˈruːt /

adverb

1. on or along the way; on the road

Word History and Origins

Origin of en route¹

Borrowed into English from French around 1770–80

Word History and Origins

Origin of en route¹

C18: from French

Idioms and Phrases

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.

Example Sentences

A run of 11 consecutive breaks of serve swung the momentum like a pendulum but it was Gauff who finally held serve in game seven of the second set en route to an 82-minute victory.

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French soldiers boarded the tanker, which is under Western sanctions, as it was en route to India from Russia’s Baltic Sea port of Primorsk.

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“It’s like revisiting the 1990s, when shopping wasn’t as easy as clicking three buttons before the item was en route to your house,” Shafransky said.

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Philadelphia wound up giving up 18 unanswered points en route to a 21-17 loss, a collapse that was both stunning, yet somehow not entirely surprising.

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The European twosome would go on to birdie seven of the first 10 holes en route to a 3-up win.

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