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pavement
/ ˈɪəԳ /
noun
- a hard-surfaced path for pedestrians alongside and a little higher than a road US and Canadian wordsidewalk
- a paved surface, esp one that is a thoroughfare
- the material used in paving
- civil engineering the hard layered structure that forms a road carriageway, airfield runway, vehicle park, or other paved areas
- geology a level area of exposed rock resembling a paved road See limestone pavement
Other Word Forms
- 貹··ٲ [peyv-, men, -tl], adjective
- ·貹mԳ noun
- ܲ·貹mԳ noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of pavement1
Idioms and Phrases
- pound the pavement, Informal. to walk the streets in order to accomplish something:
If you're going to find work you'd better start pounding the pavement.
More idioms and phrases containing pavement
see pound the pavement .Example Sentences
These large shade trees, many along South Grand Avenue, were severed at the base or cut several feet above the pavement.
Rehman's car then mounted the pavement and struck the girl, who was given emergency treatment as a junior doctor and other passers-by ran to help.
A number of trees were severed at the base, while others were cut several feet above the pavement and a few were still connected to their trunks by just a thread of bark.
Talks are set to continue on Wednesday to end a strike by Birmingham bin workers which has seen mountains of uncollected rubbish pile up on pavements and street corners.
Social media images showed a number of trees that were severed at the base, while others were cut several feet above the pavement.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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