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)

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

• DETOUR (verb)
  The verb DETOUR has 1 sense:

1. travel via a detour

  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)

Present simple: I / you / we / they detour    ... he / she / it detours   
Past simple: detoured   
Past participle: detoured   
-ing form: detouring   

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)