detour

Borrowed from French détour, from détourner (“turn away”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.tʊə(ɹ)/, /ˈdiː.tɔː(ɹ)/

detour (plural detours)

1. A diversion or deviation from one's original route.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, 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.

• bypass
• roundabout

detour (third-person singular simple present detours, present participle detouring, simple past and past participle detoured)

1. (intransitive) To make a detour.
2. (transitive) To direct or send on a detour.

• douter, redout, routed, toured

detour

1. Alternative form of dettour