royal road

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   an auspicious way or means to achieve something

   “the royal road to success”

   Broaderroad

Questions about royal road

What does royal road mean?

royal road means "an auspicious way or means to achieve something".

Is royal road a common word?

royal road is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.