- a paved surface or covering, as of concrete, brick, etc.; specif.,
- a paved street or road
- Brit. a sidewalk
- the material used in paving
Origin of pavement
Old French from Classical Latin from pavimentum from pavire, to beat: see pave
This expressway is an example of pavement.
Pavement is defined as the hard, smooth surface of a road or sidewalk.
The surface of the expressway is an example of pavement.
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noun
- a. A hard smooth surface, especially of a public area or thoroughfare, that will bear travel.b. The material with which such a surface is made.
- Chiefly British A sidewalk.
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Noun
(usually uncountable, plural pavements)
Origin
Middle English, from Old French pavement, from Latin pavimentum (“a hard surface, a pounded surface"), from pavire (“to beat, to ram, to tread down")
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Sentence Examples
- Tommaso in Formis (Jacopo); chapel of the Sancta Sanctorum, by the Lateran (Cosimo); pavement of S.
- The cathedral pavement is almost unique.
- High, and the distance from the pavement to the top of the tower is 356 ft.
- The pavement of the nave, on the other hand, is of the 16th century.
- "It always amazes me," Cynthia said with a sigh and a smile, "when we leave the pavement, it's an entirely different world.
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