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{{also|påven}}
==English==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/peɪvən/}}
* {{rhymes|en|eɪvən|s=2}}

===Etymology 1===

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{alt form|en|Paduan||stately Spanish dance}}

===Etymology 2===
From {{af|en|pave|-en|id2=past participle|pos2=past participle ending}}.

====Adjective====
{{en-adj|-}}

# {{lb|en|rare|dated|or|archaic}} [[paved]]
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1897|author=F. Harald Williams|title=Matin Bells and Scarlet and Gold|page=104|passage=Firm as a '''paven''' road sprang what had seemed a hearse, Meet to uplift the load of a great universe; {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1949|author=John Masefield|title=On the hill|page=18|passage=A '''paven''' road or gathered tax <br>But partly yield him what he lacks.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1999|author=Lin Carter|title=The Quest of Kadji|page=118|passage=The architecture was bewildering in its multiform complexity: great, sleepy-lidded faces of stone gazed down from the eight-sided towers; fantastic dragon-hybrids writhed entangled coils above portal and arch; many-armed and beast-headed gods thronged the '''paven''' ways, lining entire avenues in rank on rank of carven stone idols so innumerable as to suggest pantheons as populous as dynasties.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2005|author=Sylvia Kelso|title=Everran's Bane|page=73|passage=After Kelflase a '''paven''' road replaced the half-finished horse-track, another sick-bed project, but it was still not fast enough for the king.}}

==Danish==

===Noun===
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# {{inflection of|da|pave||def|s}}

==Norwegian Bokmål==

===Noun===
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==Norwegian Nynorsk==

===Noun===
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