pavement
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Middle English, from Old French pavement, from Latin pavimentum (“a hard surface, a pounded surface”), from pavire (“to beat, to ram, to tread down”)
Noun [edit]
pavement (usually uncountable; plural pavements)
- Any paved floor.
- Milton
- The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold.
- Milton
- (chiefly UK) A paved footpath at the side of a road.
- (US, uncountable) Paved exterior surface, as with a road or sidewalk.
- The interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings such as a cathedral.
Synonyms [edit]
- (footpath): sidewalk (US), footpath, footway, platform
- (surface of road): roadway (UK), road surface (UK); paving
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
footpath
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surface of road
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See also [edit]
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French < Latin pavimentum (“a hard surface, a pounded surface”) or from the verb paver + -ment.
Noun [edit]
pavement m (plural pavements)
Old French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Latin pavimentum (“a hard surface, a pounded surface”).
Noun [edit]
pavement m (oblique plural pavemenz, nominative singular pavemenz, nominative plural pavement)
Descendants [edit]
Categories:
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English nouns
- British English
- American English
- English uncountable nouns
- English words with different meanings in different locations
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Latin
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns
