Jeff had to pound the pavement for three months before he found a job.
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Pavement
//ˈpeɪvm(ə)nt//
Synonyms for "pavement" (118 found)
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Closest matches (24)
Strong matches (35)
Related words (59)
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Noun(4 words)
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More general
6 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesat location
7 entriesderived
26 entriesShowing 16 of 26 words.
has context
2 entrieshas property
1 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
8 entriesused for
15 entriesTranslations
77 translations across 35 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- anërrugë noun (surface of road)
Aramaic
1 entries- ܪܨܦܐ noun (surface of road)
Belarusian
3 entries- асфа́льт noun (surface of road)
- брук noun (surface of road)
- мастава́я noun (surface of road)
Bulgarian
4 entries- насти́лка noun (surface of road)
- насти́лка noun (interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings)
- пава́ж noun (surface of road)
- пло́чник noun (surface of road)
Catalan
1 entries- paviment noun (surface of road)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- بەردڕێز noun (surface of road)
Czech
2 entries- dlažba noun (interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings)
- vozovka noun (surface of road)
Danish
2 entries- brolægning noun (surface of road)
- vejbelægning noun (surface of road)
Dutch
4 entries- plaveisel noun (surface of road)
- verharding noun (surface of road)
- wegdek noun (surface of road)
- wegverharding noun (surface of road)
Esperanto
1 entries- pavimo noun (surface of road)
Finnish
2 entries- päällyste noun (surface of road)
- tiepäällyste noun (surface of road)
French
3 entries- chaussée noun (surface of road)
- pavement noun (interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings)
- revêtement noun (surface of road)
Galician
2 entries- pavimento noun (surface of road)
- pavimento noun (interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings)
German
4 entries- Asphalt noun (surface of road)
- Fahrbahndecke noun (surface of road)
- Kopfsteinpflaster noun (surface of road)
- Pflaster noun (surface of road)
Greek
1 entries- πλακόστρωτο noun (surface of road)
Hebrew
2 entries- מִסָּעָה noun (surface of road)
- מִרְצֶפֶת noun (interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings)
Hungarian
2 entries- kövezet noun (surface of road)
- útburkolat noun (surface of road)
Indonesian
1 entries- turapan noun (surface of road)
Interlingua
1 entries- pavimento noun (surface of road)
Italian
4 entries- manto noun (surface of road)
- manto stradale noun (surface of road)
- pavimentazione noun (surface of road)
- pavimentazione stradale noun (surface of road)
Latin
1 entries- pavīmentum noun (surface of road)
Macedonian
1 entries- плочник noun (surface of road)
Malay
1 entries- turapan noun (surface of road)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- brolegging noun (surface of road)
- brolegning noun (surface of road)
- brulegging noun (surface of road)
- brulegning noun (surface of road)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- brulegging noun (surface of road)
- steinlegging noun (surface of road)
Polish
3 entries- bruk noun (surface of road)
- bruk noun (interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings)
- nawierzchnia noun (surface of road)
Portuguese
1 entries- pavimento noun (surface of road)
Romanian
1 entries- pavaj noun (surface of road)
Russian
3 entries- асфа́льт noun (surface of road)
- мостова́я noun (surface of road)
- мощёный пол noun (interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- pločnik noun (surface of road)
- плочник noun (surface of road)
Spanish
2 entries- asfalto noun (surface of road)
- pavimento noun (surface of road)
Swedish
1 entries- stenläggning noun (surface of road)
Turkish
1 entries- kaldırım noun (surface of road)
Ukrainian
3 entries- асфа́льт noun (surface of road)
- брукі́вка noun (surface of road)
- мостова́ noun (surface of road)
Vietnamese
1 entries- vỉa hè noun (surface of road)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
A strange man was walking back and forth on the pavement.
Source: tatoeba (239345)
They cleared the pavement of snow.
Source: tatoeba (307522)
One shouldn't ride a bicycle on the pavement.
Source: tatoeba (320521)
Showing 4 of 16 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.