How do you use the word "rout" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "rout" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "rout": On Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced its worst rout since 1987’s "Black Monday." The enemy's rout gave us a decisive victory.

Rout Meaning

/ɹaʊt/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA group of people; a crowd, a throng, a troop; in particular (archaic), a group of people accompanying or travelling with someone.

nounA group of animals, especially one which is lively or unruly, or made up of wild animals such as wolves; a flock, a herd, a pack.

Sentence Examples

On Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced its worst rout since 1987’s "Black Monday."

The enemy's rout gave us a decisive victory.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

root mob expel

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The invading army was put to a humiliating ____ and fled back across the border.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The home team suffered a humiliating ____ losing by six goals to nil.

Word Origin & History

The noun is derived from Middle English rout, route (“group of people associated with one another, company; entourage, retinue; army; group of soldiers; group of pirates; large number of people, crowd; throng; group of disreputable people, mob; riot; group of animals; group of objects; proper condition or manner”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman route, rute, Middle French rote, route, Old French rote, route, rute (“group of people, company; group of armed people; group of criminals; group of cattle”) (modern French route (obsolete)), from Latin rupta (compare Late Latin ruta, rutta (“group of marauders; riot; unlawful assembly”)), the feminine of ruptus (“broken; burst, ruptured”), the perfect passive participle of rumpō (“to break, burst, rupture, tear; to force open; (figurative) to annul; to destroy; to interrupt”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to break; to tear (up)”). The English word is a doublet of route. The verb is derived from Middle English routen (“to assemble, congregate; of animals: to herd together; to regroup, make a stand against; to be riotous, to riot”) [and other forms], from rout, route (noun); see above.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"A route of people there aſſembled were, / Of euery ſort and nation vnder skye, [...]" — 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 44, page 284:

"The Incorporations this year did moſtly conſiſt of Cantabrigians who had lately come to this University for preferment from the Viſitors, when the great rout of Royalliſts were by then made in this University." — 1691, [Anthony Wood], “Fasti Oxonienses”, in Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volume I (Extending to the 16th Year of King Charles I. Dom. 1640), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […], →OCLC, column 744:

"'Is there anyone in this rout with authority to treat with me?' he asked." — 1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 315:

"Beſides the endleſſe routs of wretched thralles, / VVhich thether were aſſembled day by day, / From all the world after their wofull falles, / Through wicked pride, and waſted welthes decay." — 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 51, page 74:

"The Ring-leader and Head of all this Rout, / Haue practis'd dangerouſly againſt your State, / Dealing with Witches and with Coniurers, [...]" — 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 127, column 2:

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