pavement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From Middle English pament, from Anglo-Norman pavement and reinforced by Middle French pavement; both from Latin pavīmentum (“paved surface or floor”), from pavīre (“to beat, to ram, to tread down”). Morphologically pave + -ment.
Base: pave
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: pavements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A paved surface; a hard covering on the ground.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold.
gloss: A paved path, for the use of pedestrians, located at the side of a road.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Ireland
Mid-Atlantic
South-Africa
UK
US
countable
usually
examples: It was a cold and rainy afternoon as Ethel Churchill sat at the window of their new abode, a house in one of the streets leading from the Strand to the river. It was the day after their arrival, and nothing could well be more gloomy than the view: the pavement was wet, and a yellow mist obscured every object,...
Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.
gloss: A paving (paved part) of a road or other thoroughfare; the roadway or road surface.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
uncountable
usually
examples: [H]e attempted to recover his importance, by haranguing upon the Roman highways, when Mr. Jolter desired the company to take notice of the fine pavement upon which they travelled from Paris into Flanders […].
The antirunway munitions are specifically designed to cause maximum destruction to airfield pavements.
89.2 million tons of RAP are used annually in new asphalt pavement construction in the United States.
gloss: The paved part of an area other than a road or sidewalk, such as a cobblestone plaza, asphalt schoolyard or playground, or parking lot.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
uncountable
usually
gloss: Interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: ...that took them to a brief rise of marble stairs that should've put them on the third-and-a-halfth floor if it'd been anywhere but Hogwarts, and then it was back to tiled stone pavement again, and...
gloss: Interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: bumpy pavement
burn pavement
desert pavement
hit the pavement
limestone pavement
moving pavement
nymph of the pavement
pavemental
pavement ant
pavement ape
pavement artist
pavement café
pavement cafe
pavement cell
pavement chalk
pavemented
pavement epithelium
pavementing
pavementless
pavementlike
pavement pizza
pavement princess
pavement special
Portuguese pavement
poultice pavement
pound the pavement
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: насти́лка
roman: nastílka
lang: Czech
word: dlažba
lang: French
word: pavement
lang: Galician
word: pavimento
lang: German
word: Pflaster
lang: Hebrew
word: מִרְצֶפֶת
roman: mirtséfet
lang: Polish
word: bruk
lang: Russian
word: мощёный пол
roman: moščónyj pol