Pavement

Quick meaning: Pavement is a noun meaning (now chiefly in technical contexts) A paved surface; a hard covering on the ground.

Meaning

(now chiefly in technical contexts) A paved surface; a hard covering on the ground.

More Meanings

1. (now chiefly Canada, US) A paving (paved part) of a road or other thoroughfare; the roadway or road surface.
2. Interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings.
3. (now chiefly Canada, US) The paved part of an area other than a road or sidewalk, such as a cobblestone plaza, asphalt schoolyard or playground, or parking lot.
4. (chiefly UK, Ireland, South Africa, Canada, Mid-Atlantic US, countable) A paved path, for the use of pedestrians, located at the side of a road.

Example Sentences

The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold.

89.2 million tons of RAP are used annually in new asphalt pavement construction in the United States.

The antirunway munitions are specifically designed to cause maximum destruction to airfield pavements.

...that took them to a brief rise of marble stairs that should've put them on the third-and-a-halfth floor if it'd been anywhere but Hogwarts, and then it was back to tiled stone pavement again, and.

Word Forms

• pavements

Synonyms for pavement

Depending on context, synonyms include sidewalk, footpath, trottoir, paving.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include paving, sidewalk, paved, siding, floor, deck.

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