Path Definition

păth, päth
paths
noun
paths
A track or way worn by footsteps; trail.
Webster's New World
A road, way, or track made for a particular purpose.
A bicycle path.
American Heritage
A walk or way for the use of people on foot, as in a park or garden.
Webster's New World
The route or course along which something travels or moves.
The path of a hurricane.
American Heritage
A line of movement; course taken.
The path of the meteor.
Webster's New World
Antonyms:
suffix
A practitioner of a specified kind of medical treatment.
Naturopath.
American Heritage
One affected by a specified kind of disorder.
Sociopath.
American Heritage
abbreviation
Pathological.
Webster's New World
Pathology.
Webster's New World
verb
To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Path

Noun

Singular:
path
Plural:
paths

Origin of Path

  • From Middle English path, peth, from Old English pæþ (“path, track"), from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path") (compare West Frisian paad, Dutch pad, German Pfad), from Scythian (compare Avestan [script?] (panta), gen. [script?] (paθa, “way"), Old Persian [script?] (pathi-)), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (compare English find). More at find.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English pæth pent- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Back-formation from –pathy

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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