"royal road" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "In reference to Euclid, who is said to have told a king that there was no royal road to geometry.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "royal roads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "royal road (plural royal roads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1942 May-June, T. F. Cameron, “An Outline of Railway Traffic Operation”, in Railway Magazine, page 138",
          "text": "There is no royal road to success in transport work.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An easy or straightforward procedure for achieving a goal; a procedure that requires little effort."
      ],
      "id": "en-royal_road-en-noun-BC3zHblB",
      "links": [
        [
          "easy",
          "easy"
        ],
        [
          "straightforward",
          "straightforward"
        ],
        [
          "procedure",
          "procedure"
        ],
        [
          "effort",
          "effort"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "easy way",
          "word": "helppo tie"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "easy way",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "voie royale"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "easy way",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Königsweg"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "sense": "easy way",
          "word": "王道"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "easy way",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "łatwy sposób"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "easy way",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "camino real"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "easy way",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "kungsväg"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "royal road"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "In reference to Euclid, who is said to have told a king that there was no royal road to geometry.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "royal roads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "royal road (plural royal roads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1942 May-June, T. F. Cameron, “An Outline of Railway Traffic Operation”, in Railway Magazine, page 138",
          "text": "There is no royal road to success in transport work.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An easy or straightforward procedure for achieving a goal; a procedure that requires little effort."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "easy",
          "easy"
        ],
        [
          "straightforward",
          "straightforward"
        ],
        [
          "procedure",
          "procedure"
        ],
        [
          "effort",
          "effort"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "easy way",
      "word": "helppo tie"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "easy way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "voie royale"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "easy way",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Königsweg"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "easy way",
      "word": "王道"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "easy way",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "łatwy sposób"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "easy way",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "camino real"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "easy way",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kungsväg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "royal road"
}