royal road
Americannoun
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an auspicious or easy way or means to achieve something.
the royal road to success.
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a highway in ancient Persia, 1,677 miles (2,700 km) long, extending from Susa in W Iran to W Asia Minor.
noun
Example Sentences
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There is no royal road to the Slate News Quiz.
From Slate • Oct. 17, 2025
Take a royal road trip in the Loire Valley, dotted with Renaissance chateaus.
From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2020
To deal with the situation, not only did he encourage intermarriage, but he simply took over the Persian system of governance, with its royal road, its regional governors, and its huge and elaborate bureaucracy.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2019
“Freud said dreams were the royal road to the unconscious,” he said in our first interview.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 2, 2015
Psychology offers no single, easy, royal road to discovering this dynamically best order.
From The Psychology of Arithmetic by Thorndike, Edward L. (Edward Lee)
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