What does well-trodden mean?

well-trodden

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.63 in modern English

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"He beat the familiar and well-trodden path to her door."
"Toto whimpered a little but none of the others was frightened and they kept along the well-trodden path until they came to an opening in the wood, in which were gathered hundreds of beasts of every variety."
"But I'm here to follow the less well-trodden route up to the most northerly point of the British mainland, which has its own scenic claim to make."

more well-trodden (comparative) most well-trodden (superlative)

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