path
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English path, peth, from Old English pæþ (“path, track”), from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path”) (compare West Frisian paad, Dutch pad, German Pfad), Greek πατέω (patéo) / πάτος (pátos), from Scythian (compare Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬥𐬙𐬀 (panta, “way”), 𐬞𐬀𐬚𐬀 (paθa, genitive), Old Persian [script needed] (pathi-)), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (compare English find).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /pɑːθ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [pʰɑːθ]
- (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA(key): [pʰäːθ~pʰɐːθ]
- IPA(key): /pæθ/
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Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːθ, -æθ
Noun[edit]
path (plural paths)
- A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
- John Dryden
- The dewy paths of meadows we will tread.
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1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
- John Dryden
- A course taken.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- Just before Warwick reached Liberty Point, a young woman came down Front Street from the direction of the market-house. When their paths converged, Warwick kept on down Front Street behind her, it having been already his intention to walk in this direction.
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the path of a meteor, of a caravan, or of a storm
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- (paganism) A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
- A metaphorical course.
- A method or direction of proceeding.
- Bible, Psalms xxv. 10
- All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth.
- Gray
- The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
- Bible, Psalms xxv. 10
- (computing) A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL
- (graph theory) A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path, where only the first and the last vertex are the same).
- (topology) A continuous map from the unit interval to a topological space .
Synonyms[edit]
- (1): track, trail; see also Thesaurus:way
Hypernyms[edit]
Hypernyms of path (noun)
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from path (noun)
Translations[edit]
a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians
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a course taken
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a metaphorical course
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a method or direction of proceeding
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computing: a specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure
graph theory: a sequence of vertices from one vertex to another
topology: a continuous map
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Verb[edit]
path (third-person singular simple present paths, present participle pathing, simple past and past participle pathed)
- (transitive) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).
- Drayton
- pathing young Henry's unadvised ways
- Drayton
Etymology 2[edit]
Shortening.
Noun[edit]
path (uncountable)
References[edit]
- Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; June 2005]
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