Usually means: Path leading to easy pleasure.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word primrose path:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. primrose path: Merriam-Webster
  2. primrose path: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. primrose path: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. primrose path, the primrose path: Collins English Dictionary
  5. primrose path: Vocabulary.com
  6. the primrose path: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. primrose path: Wiktionary
  8. primrose path: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. primrose path: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. primrose path: Dictionary.com
  11. Primrose Path (film), The Primrose Path (Stoker novel), The Primrose Path (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. primrose path: Rhymezone
  13. primrose path: FreeDictionary.org
  14. primrose path: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Primrose Path: The Word Detective
  16. primrose path: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Primrose path: Phrase Finder

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. primrose path, the primrose path: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Primrose Path: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (primrose path)

noun:  An easy and pleasant life; a self-indulgent or hedonistic life; such a life that leads to damnation.
noun:  A deceptively easy or appealing course of action that leads one astray or into error.
noun:  (euphemistic) The life of prostitution.

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