router

From route +‎ -er.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹuː.tə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaʊ.tɚ/

• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ), -aʊtə(ɹ)

router (plural routers)

1. Someone who routes or directs items from one location to another.

   The router directed the movement of the company's trucks.

   • 1930, Edwin A. Godley, Alexander Kaylin, Control of Retail Store Operations‎^[1], page 213:

     When the router receives the package, he places the route number on it as well as on the triplicate part of the attached salescheck.

   • 1963, Louis J. von Rago, Production Analysis and Control‎^[2], page 476:

     Obviously, the production control department might consist of one man or it might occupy a score of production control experts: routers, schedulers, expediters, and dispatchers.

   • 1990, Mary Kay Allen, Omar Keith Helferich, Putting Expert Systems to Work in Logistics‎^[3], page 66:

     The system benefits include reduced delivery costs, increased vehicle use, and improved route decision making by dispatchers and routers.

2. (telecommunications) Any device that directs packets of information using the equivalent of Open Systems Interconnection layer 3 (network layer) information. Most commonly used in reference to Internet Protocol routers.
   • 2022 May 17, “Synology SRM 1.3 Software Review Part 4 – The Safe Access Application”, in NAS Compares‎^[4]:

     That’s one of the biggest hurdles of managing a router and your network security in general, it’s a massive chore that is fraught with technical jargon, hurdles and screens saying ‘no’, ‘invalid’ or ‘not available’.

4. (Internet) A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway.

   The router was configured to forward packets outside of a certain range of IP addresses to its internet uplink port.

5. (electronics, electronic design automation) In integrated circuit or printed circuit board design, an algorithm for adding all wires needed to properly connect all of the placed components while obeying all design rules.
7. A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.

   Synonym: traveller

• → Japanese: ルーター, ルータ
• → Korean: 라우터 (rauteo)

• firewall
• routing (EDA) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From rout +‎ -er.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaʊtə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaʊtɚ/
• Rhymes: -aʊtə(ɹ)

router (plural routers)

1. A power tool used in carpentry for cutting grooves.

   He made an attractive edge on the table with a router.

2. A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
3. A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.

• plunge router

• wood router on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

router (third-person singular simple present routers, present participle routering, simple past and past participle routered)

1. to hollow out or cut using a router power tool.
   • 1952, John Hooper, Percy A. Wells, Modern Cabinetwork, Furniture and Fitments, page 132:

     An alternative is shown in which the carcase ends are grooved by routering.

   • 2000, Ernest Joyce, Alan Peters, Patrick Spielman, Encyclopedia of Furniture Making, page 290:

     Figures 276: 10, 11 are typical sliding flush door pulls, the former routered out, but the latter can be turned in a lathe, while 276:12 is an oblong routered version.

   • 2007, Laurie J. Gage, Rebecca S. Duerr, Hand-Rearing Birds, page 352:

     Routered holes may also be filled with diluted maple syrup (1 part syrup to 9 parts water) to create a sap well for sapsuckers.

• retour, roture, tourer

Borrowed from English router.

• IPA^(key): /ɹaːu̯⁵⁵ tʰaː³⁵/

router

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet) router

Borrowed from English router.

• IPA^(key): /ˈraʊtr̩/
• Hyphenation: rou‧ter

router m inan

1. (Internet) router (networking device)

• “router”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Borrowed from English router.

• IPA^(key): /ˈru.tər/, /ˈruː.tər/, /ˈrɑu̯.tər/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -utər, -ɑu̯tər
• Hyphenation: rou‧ter

router m (plural routers, diminutive routertje n)

1. (Internet) router (networking device)

From route +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ʁu.te/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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router

1. to route

• routage
• routeur

• “router”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• retour, trouer

Borrowed from English router.

• Audio:

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router m (invariable)

1. (computing) router

• ruter

Unadapted borrowing from English router.

• IPA^(key): /ˈru.tɛr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -utɛr
• Syllabification: rou‧ter

router m inan

1. (Internet) router (device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet)

   Synonym: trasownik

• “router”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[5] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “router”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[6] (in Polish)

Unadapted borrowing from English router.

• Hyphenation: rou‧ter

router m (plural routers)

1. (Portugal, networking) router (device that directs packets of information using OSI layer 3)

   Synonym: (Brazil) roteador

• “router”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “router”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026

• rúter

Unadapted borrowing from English router.

• IPA^(key): /ˈruteɾ/ [ˈru.t̪eɾ], /ˈrauteɾ/ [ˈrau̯.t̪eɾ]
  • Rhymes: -uteɾ, -auteɾ
• IPA^(key): /ˈrouteɾ/ [ˈrou̯.t̪eɾ], /rouˈteɾ/ [rou̯ˈt̪eɾ]
  • Rhymes: -outeɾ, -eɾ
  • Syllabification: rou‧ter

router m (plural routers)^[1]

1. router

   Synonyms: enrutador, direccionador, encaminador

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “router”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

router c

1. (telecommunications) a router

router

1. definite singular of route

• “router”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “router”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)