pavement
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- noun
- /ˈpeɪvmənt/
- UK
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- Their feet slapped the pavement in a unified rhythm, then became chaotic, then rhythmic again.
- stone pavement
- pound the pavement
- flat pavement
Boom, just clean knockout, smash my head against the pavement.
- Boom, just clean knockout, smash my head against the pavement.
- Waking up on a cold pavement and I know the majority of yours will be spending time with family and friends and opening gifts and laughing.
- So I'm a huge fan of pounding the pavement, showing up in real world places.
Examples
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Shoe leather to pavement, Ken, and you've got a track right here.
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Be careful when you walk on the pavement near the busy street.
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If you step off the pavement, you will get your ticket without warning.
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What are you doing riding on the pavement, young man?
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People here just think they own the pavement!
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A small boy with a hoop and a stick ran down the pavement past her
Fiction book (1990) -
Streets are so full, you can't walk in a town without getting pushed off the pavement.
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When he was nine, Colin used to zigzag from pavement to pavement, touching every band on every tree.
Fiction book (1991) -
You looked down, and the pavement was inlaid with geometric designs.
Academic text (2010) -
The gent makes his way, with gout-ridden slowness, across the pavement, through the passersby, toward the car.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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A paved path next to a street for people to walk on
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A path made for people to go on foot
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A flat area covered with hard material like concrete or stones
A path for people to walk on beside a road
Antonyms
Idioms
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To go out onto the street to look for work, run for exercise, or sell things
Compounds
A person who draws pictures on the pavement with chalk to earn money from people walking by
How Walkable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pavement comes from the verb pave, which comes from an old Latin word meaning 'to beat down'. So, think of workers pressing and setting stones to make a hard path, and that's why a pavement is the solid path at the side of a road for people to walk on.