Detour
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English
Noun
Detour (plural Detours)- A diversion or deviation from one's original route.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs , The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
- On the third day I made a detour westward to avoid the country of the Band-lu, as I did not care to be detained by a meeting with To-jo.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs , The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
Verb
Detour (third-person singular simple present Detours, present participle Detouring, simple past and past participle Detoured)
- (intransitive) To make a detour.
- (transitive) To direct or send on a detour.
Adjectives for Detour
weary; lightning; quick; disconcerting; unexpected; wrong; bumpy; long; round-about; wretched.
Synonyms for Detour
deviation, side road, digression, by-pass.
Antonyms for Detour
Thesaurus
aberrancy, aberration, ambages, back door, back road, back stairs, back street, back way, bear off, bend, bias, branch off, branching off, by-lane, bypass, bypath, byroad, bystreet, byway, change the bearing, circuit, circuitousness, circumbendibus, circumnavigate, circumvent, corner, crook, curve, declination, depart from, departure, deviance, deviancy, deviate, deviation, deviousness, digress, digression, discursion, divagate, divagation, divaricate, divarication, diverge, divergence, diversion, divert, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, go around, go round about, hairpin, heel, indirection, make a detour, obliquity, pererration, rambling, roundabout, roundabout way, runaround, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, side door, side road, side street, skew, slant, straying, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, trend, turn, turn aside, turn away from, turning, twist, variation, vary, veer, wandering, warp, yaw, zigzag
Etymology
From French détour, from détourner ‘turn away’.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈdiːtʊə/
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