Upper-Intermediate 📚 Vocabulary · #351 of 1319

detour (n.)

a longer indirect route

Examples

  • We made a detour.

Key rules

  • A detour is a longer route used to avoid a problem
  • Take a detour, make a detour
  • Detour is countable

Common mistakes

  • We took a detour of the road closure → We took a detour because of the road closure
  • We made a detour for the station → We made a detour to the station

Use cases

  • Driving directions
  • Travel problems
  • Road closures
💡 Tip: Detour can also mean a route that goes around an obstacle.
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