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noun (English)
1. (countable, obsolete) A group of people; a crowd, a throng, a troop; in particular (archaic), a group of people accompanying or travelling with someone.Examples: "A route of people there aſſembled were, / Of euery ſort and nation vnder skye, [...]"; "The Incorporations this year did moſtly conſiſt of Cantabrigians who had lately come to this University for preferment from the Viſitors, when the great rout of Royalliſts were by then made in this University."; "'Is there anyone in this rout with authority to treat with me?' he asked."Synonyms: company, gatheringcountableobsolete
2. (countable, archaic) A group of animals, especially one which is lively or unruly, or made up of wild animals such as wolves; a flock, a herd, a pack.archaiccountable
3. (countable) A group of disorganized things.countable
4. (countable) A group of (often violent) criminals or gangsters; such people as a class; (more generally) a disorderly and tumultuous crowd, a mob; hence (archaic, preceded by the), the common people as a group, the rabble.Examples: "Beſides the endleſſe routs of wretched thralles, / VVhich thether were aſſembled day by day, / From all the world after their wofull falles, / Through wicked pride, and waſted welthes decay."; "The Ring-leader and Head of all this Rout, / Haue practis'd dangerouſly againſt your State, / Dealing with Witches and with Coniurers, [...]"; "When Gospel-Trumpeter surrounded, / With long-ear'd rout to Battel sounded, / And Pulpit, Drum Ecclesiastick, / Was beat with fist, instead of a stick:"countable
5. (countable, dated) A fashionable assembly; a large evening party, a soirée.Examples: "The Ducheſs or Marlborough had one of the grandeſt routs that has been given for ſome time, almoſt the whole of the firſt people of rank and faſhion in England being preſent. This being a new birth to conviviality in Marlborough Houſe, and the firſt rout for theſe ſeven laſt years, it was uncommonly crouded."; "Come then, ſweet ſpring's delights to taſte; / No longer, my Maria, waſte / Thoſe hours in routs and noiſe, [...]"; "The ancients have always been opposed to them; just as, at routs and dances, elderly beauties to younger."countabledated
6. (countable, archaic) A noisy disturbance; also, a disorderly argument or fight, a brawl; (uncountable) disturbance of the peace, commotion, tumult.Examples: ""Nay, child! it is not well," I said, / "Among the graves to shout; / To laugh and play among the dead, / And make this noisy rout.""archaiccountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, obsolete) To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.Examples: "Whereupon the meaner ſort [of people] routed together, and ſuddenly aſſayling the Earle [i.e., Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland] in his Houſe, ſlew him, and diuers of his ſeruants."intransitiveobsolete
noun (English)
1. (originally military) The act of completely defeating an army or other enemy force, causing it to retreat in a disorganized manner; (by extension) in politics, sport, etc.: a convincing defeat; a thrashing, a trouncing.Examples: "The rout of the enemy was complete."; "The visiting football team was put to rout."; "From Thrace they fly, call'd to the dire Alarms / Of warring Phlegyans, and Emphyrian Arms; / Invok'd by both, relentleſs they diſpoſe / To theſe, glad Conqueſt, murd'rous Rout to thoſe."
2. (military, also figurative) The retreat of an enemy force, etc., in this manner; also (archaic, rare), the army, enemy force, etc., so retreating.Examples: "[T]hy Army preſently, / (As if they could not ſtand, when thou wert downe) / Diſperſt in rout, betooke them all to flie: [...]"; "And the authorities in Moscow presented the rout in the northeast as a planned “regrouping.”"; "Small contingents of Russian troops across the country have tried to train the Syrian army into a more professional force (the rout in Aleppo suggests those efforts have gone poorly)."alsofiguratively
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).Examples: "[T]hat Party of the King's Horſe which Charged the Scots, ſo totally Routed and defeated their whole Army, that they fled all ways for many Miles together, and were knock'd on the head, and taken Priſoners by the Country, [...]"; "They write with eloquence against the men, using the men’s own language to embarrass them and sometimes even to rout them."; "Israel tightened its blockade of the Gaza Strip after Hamas routed secular Fatah forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and seized control of the enclave in June 2007."transitive
2. (intransitive, archaic) To retreat from a confrontation in disorder.Examples: "The Ra division broke in panic and fled up against the just-arriving Amon division, which as a result began to rout as well."archaicintransitive
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To snore, especially loudly.Englandintransitiveregional
2. (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort.Englandintransitiveregional
3. (intransitive, Scotland, archaic) Especially of the sea, thunder, wind, etc.: to make a loud roaring noise; to howl, to roar, to rumble.Scotlandarchaicintransitive
noun (English)
1. (chiefly Scotland) A loud, resounding noise, especially one made by the sea, thunder, wind, etc.; a roar.Scotland
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