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Webster 1913 Edition

Pavement

Pave′ment

,
Noun.
[F., fr. LL.
pavamentum
, L.
pavimentum
. See
Pave
.]
That with which anything is paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks.
The riches of heaven’s
pavement
, trodden gold.
Milton.
Pavement teeth
(Zool.)
,
flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side by side, like tiles in a pavement.

Pave′ment

,
Verb.
T.
To furnish with a pavement; to pave.
[Obs.]
“How richly pavemented!”
Bp. Hall.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pavement

PA'VEMENT

,
Noun.
[L. pavimentum.] A floor or covering consisting of stones or bricks, laid on the earth in such a manner as to make a hard and convenient passage; as a pavement of pebbles, of bricks, or of marble.

PA'VEMENT

,
Verb.
T.
To pave; to floor with stone or brick. [Unusual.]

Definition 2024

pavement

pavement

English

Noun

pavement ‎(usually uncountable, plural pavements)

  1. Any paved floor.
    • Milton
      The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold.
  2. (chiefly Britain) A paved footpath, especially at the side of a road.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess:
      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.
  3. (US) Any paved exterior surface, as of a road or sidewalk.
    • 1991, Airpower Journal 1911 (page 45)
      The antirunway munitions are specifically designed to cause maximum destruction to airfield pavements.
  4. The interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings such as a cathedral.

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French

Etymology

From Old French pavement, from the verb paver +‎ -ment, based on Latin pavimentum ‎(“a hard surface, a pounded surface”).

Noun

pavement m ‎(plural pavements)

  1. paving
  2. tiled floor

Old French

Etymology

paver +‎ -ment, based on Latin pavimentum ‎(“a hard surface, a pounded surface”).

Noun

pavement m ‎(oblique plural pavemenz or pavementz, nominative singular pavemenz or pavementz, nominative plural pavement)

  1. a paved room

Descendants

Etymology

Borrowing from Middle French pavement, from Old French pavement, based on Latin pavimentum ‎(“a hard surface, a pounded surface”), from pavire ‎(“to beat, to ram, to tread down”)

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