DETOUR: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | 'deetûr
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)
- [v] travel via a detour
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| | Synonyms: | | roundabout way |
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| | See Also: | | deviate, divert, road, route | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \De`tour"\, n. [F. d['e]tour, fr. d['e]tourner to turn
aside; pref. d['e]- (L. dis-) + tourner to turn. See {Turn}.]
A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct
course; as, the detours of the Mississippi.
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| Dream Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Seeing a detour in your dream means that you have encountered an obstacle in some aspect of your life. You may not want to confront something directly and thus must try to find a way around it. |
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| Thesaurus Terms |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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