Definition of "en route" []

• On or along the way: We are en route to the museum. The store is en route. (adverb)

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• "Fumbling in the pitch black of their Idaho hotel room, where they had stopped en route to their final destination, Jan switched on the bedside lamp and stood for a moment in the circle of reassuring yellow light."
• "Vidalin, which we carrried in our car en route to Seattle."
• "For coded movement reports of Japanese warships en route to Hitokappu Bay in November 1941, see the SRN documents in RG 457, MMRB, Archives II."