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DETOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does detour mean? 

DETOUR (noun)
  The noun DETOUR has 1 sense:

1. a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)play

  Familiarity information: DETOUR used as a noun is very rare.


DETOUR (verb)
  The verb DETOUR has 1 sense:

1. travel via a detourplay

  Familiarity information: DETOUR used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DETOUR (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

detour; roundabout way

Hypernyms ("detour" is a kind of...):

road; route (an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation)

Derivation:

detour (travel via a detour)


DETOUR (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they detour  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it detours  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: detoured  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: detoured  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: detouring  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Travel via a detour

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "detour" is one way to...):

deviate; divert (turn aside; turn away from)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

detour (a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked))


 Context examples 


Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and once he made quite a little detour into the meadow.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But towards the end of the bombardment, though still I durst not venture in the direction of the stockade, where the balls fell oftenest, I had begun, in a manner, to pluck up my heart again, and after a long detour to the east, crept down among the shore-side trees.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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