en route

1. 1.

   on a route to some place

   “help is on the way”

   “we saw him on the way to California”

   Synonymson the way

Questions about en route

What does en route mean?

en route means "on a route to some place".

What is another word for en route?

Close synonyms include on the way. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is en route a common word?

en route is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.