Detour
['diːtʊə] or ['ditʊr]
Definition
(noun.) a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked).
(verb.) travel via a detour.
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Definition
(n.) A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Fr.] Circuitous route, indirect way, roundabout way.
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Definition
n. a winding: a circuitous way.
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Examples
- Thence he made a detour from his left with a view of reaching Reams's Station (supposing it to be in our possession). Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The courier from Valladolid to Lisbon was ordered to make a detour, so as to take Jarandilla in his route, and bring supplies for the royal table. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This DETOUR has been entirely for our benefit, then? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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