EN ROUTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does en route mean? 

• EN ROUTE (adverb)
  The adverb EN ROUTE has 1 sense:

1. on a route to some place

  Familiarity information: EN ROUTE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EN ROUTE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

On a route to some place

Synonyms:

en route; on the way

Context example:

we saw him on the way to California

 Context examples 

This is its last major crossing en route to becoming the first probe to make a close encounter with distant Pluto on July 14, 2015.

(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)

According to the Cheetah Conservation Fund, about 85% of an estimated 1,200 trafficked cheetah cubs have died within the past ten years, perishing en route.

(Around 7,100 cheetahs remain, say experts, Wikinews)

And so it happened that an hour or so later I found myself in the corner of a first-class carriage flying along en route for Exeter, while Sherlock Holmes, with his sharp, eager face framed in his ear-flapped travelling-cap, dipped rapidly into the bundle of fresh papers which he had procured at Paddington.

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