detour

Meaning of detour

noun
  1. a long or roundabout route that is taken to avoid something or to visit somewhere along the way.
    he had made a detour to a cafe
verb
  1. take a long or roundabout route.
    he detoured around the walls

mid 18th century (as a noun): from French détour ‘change of direction’, from détourner ‘turn away’.

Information about detour

  • The plural form of detour is: detours.
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Hyphenation of detour

de-tour

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • detour is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Translation of detour

Anagrams of detour

derout, douter, outred, redout, routed, toured

Words that rhyme with detour

tour, Latour, Rahmatour, acatour, achatour, atour, caliatour, mairatour, wardatour, retour, treachetour, tregetour, semitour, treitour, contour, entour, recontour, santour, notour, dortour, destour, dustour, pastour, woustour, attour

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