Detour

Noun

 * 1) A diversion or deviation from one's original route.
 * 2) *1918,, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
 * On the third day I made a detour westward to avoid the country of the Band-lu, as I did not care to be detained by a meeting with To-jo.

Verb

 * 1)  To make a detour.
 * 2)  To direct or send on a detour.

Adjectives for Detour
weary; lightning; quick; disconcerting; unexpected; wrong; bumpy; long; round-about; wretched.

Synonyms for Detour
deviation, side road, digression, by-pass.

Antonyms for Detour
direct route, highway.

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

Etymology
From French détour, from détourner ‘turn away’.

Noun

 * Bulgarian: отклонение, заобикаляне,  обиколка
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German: (diversion),  (deviation)


 * Hebrew: מעקף
 * Hungarian: kerülőút, elkerülőút,  kerülő
 * Japanese: 迂回路 (ukai-ro)
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * Bulgarian: заобикалям
 * Dutch:, etc.


 * German:
 * Japanese: 迂回する (ukai-suru)


 * Bulgarian: карам да заобиколи
 * Dutch:
 * German:


 * Japanese: 迂回する (ukai-suru)
 * Spanish:

Anagrams

 * douȝter, routed, toured