off the beaten path

Variant of beaten

beaten definition

beaten (bēt′'n)

adjective

  1. struck with repeated blows; whipped
  2. shaped or made thin by hammering
  3. flattened by treading; much traveled a beaten path
    1. defeated
    2. crushed in spirit by defeat
  5. tired out
  6. searched through for game

Etymology: pp. of beat

beaten Idioms

off the beaten track

or off the beaten path
  1. away or apart from others of its kind
  2. unusual, unfamiliar, original, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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