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royal road

royal road noun: an easy or straightforward procedure for achieving a goal; a procedure that requires little effort.

Noun

royal road (plural royal roads)

  1. An easy or straightforward procedure for achieving a goal; a procedure that requires little effort.
    • There is no royal road to success in transport work.1942 May-June, T. F. Cameron, “An Outline of Railway Traffic Operation”, in Railway Magazine, page 138
  2. A chord progression, IVᴹ⁷–V⁷–iii⁷–vi, common in Japanese pop music.

Proper noun capitalized: Royal Road

the Royal Road

  1. (historical) The longest road in the ancient system of trade routes and roads developed in Achaemenid Persia, which connected the capitals Sardis (in Asia Minor) to Susa (in Mesopotamia) and featured post-stations with service facilities.

royal road meaning in Tamil

royal road in Tamil

ராசபாட்டை, பெருநெறி, செல்வழி

Forms of royal road

pluralroyal roads

Origin of royal road

In reference to Euclid, who is said to have told a king that there was no royal road to geometry. In the musical sense, a calque of Japanese 王道進行, itself deriving from a calque of sense 1.

Questions about royal road

What does royal road mean?
Royal road means an easy or straightforward procedure for achieving a goal; a procedure that requires little effort.
What is royal road in Tamil?
Royal road in Tamil is ராசபாட்டை, பெருநெறி, செல்வழி. See Royal road meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is royal road?
Royal road can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of royal road?
The plural of royal road is royal roads.

Words near royal road in the dictionary

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  4. royal red prawn
  5. royal red prawns
  6. royal road
  7. royal roads
  8. royal scamp
  9. royal scamps
  10. Royal Scythians
  11. royal spade

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Adapted from Wiktionary: royal road (page history and authors); Royal Road (page history and authors); royal road (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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