1 a longer route that you take in order to avoid a problem or to visit a place:
We had to make a detour around the flooded fields. * It's well worth making a detour to see the village.
2 (AmE) = DIVERSION
verb (AmE) ~ (to...) to take a longer route in order to avoid a problem or to visit a place; to make sb/sth take a longer route:
[V] The President detoured to Chicago for a special meeting. [also VN]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for detour is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is detour a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, detour is tagged as noun.
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