'Detour' definitions:
Definition of 'detour'
(from WordNet)
noun
A roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked) [syn: detour, roundabout way]
verb
Travel via a detour
Definition of 'Detour'
From: GCIDE
- Detour \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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'detour'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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