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Pavement

//ˈpeɪvm(ə)nt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A paved surface; a hard covering on the ground. uncountable, usually

    "The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold."

  2. 2
    the paved surface of a thoroughfare wordnet
  3. 3
    A paved path, for the use of pedestrians, located at the side of a road. Canada, Ireland, Mid-Atlantic, South-Africa, UK, US, countable, usually

    "It was a cold and rainy afternoon as Ethel Churchill sat at the window of their new abode, a house in one of the streets leading from the Strand to the river. It was the day after their arrival, and nothing could well be more gloomy than the view: the pavement was wet, and a yellow mist obscured every object,..."

  4. 4
    walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway wordnet
  5. 5
    A paving (paved part) of a road or other thoroughfare; the roadway or road surface. Canada, US, uncountable, usually

    "[H]e attempted to recover his importance, by haranguing upon the Roman highways, when Mr. Jolter desired the company to take notice of the fine pavement upon which they travelled from Paris into Flanders […]."

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  1. 6
    material used to pave an area wordnet
  2. 7
    The paved part of an area other than a road or sidewalk, such as a cobblestone plaza, asphalt schoolyard or playground, or parking lot. Canada, US, uncountable, usually
  3. 8
    Interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings. uncountable, usually

    "...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..."

  4. 9
    Interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings.; The interior flooring of a church sanctuary, between the communion rail and the altar. uncountable, usually

Etymology

From Middle English pament, from Anglo-Norman pavement and reinforced by Middle French pavement; both from Latin pavīmentum (“paved surface or floor”), from pavīre (“to beat, to ram, to tread down”). Morphologically pave + -ment.

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