Pavement

Noun

 * 1)  A paved footpath at the side of a road.
 * 2) 🇺🇸  Paved exterior surface, as with a road or sidewalk.
 * 3) The interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings such as a cathedral.
 * 4)   The material with which a surface is paved.
 * 5) * 1912, Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Schenectady, Part 1, page 397:
 * Gutter condition Fourteenth Avenue, No. 715 667 intersection Lincoln is such that with an ordinary pen knife it is possible to pick up pavement and crumble in the hand.
 * 1) * 2001, Michael Elliott, "Death In Genoa," Time, 22 July:
 * [P]rotesters hurled Molotov cocktails and chunks of pavement into the faces of Czech police officers.

Synonyms

 * sidewalk
 * roadway, road surface ; paving

Derived terms

 * hit the pavement
 * pound the pavement

Adjectives for Pavement
solitary; unsafe; brick; untrodden; rag-strewn; billowy; shady; deserted; dappled; grass-grown; firmamental; circular; insufficient; damp; marble; noiseless; dimly-lighted.

Thesaurus
Tarmac, Tarvia, adobe, ashlar, asphalt, base, basement, basis, bearing wall, bed, bedding, bedrock, bitumen, bituminous macadam, blacktop, brick, bricks and mortar, carpet, carpeting, cement, clinker, cobble, cobblestone, concrete, cover, covering materials, curb, curbing, curbstone, deck, doormat, drop cloth, duckboards, earth, edgestone, ferroconcrete, firebrick, flag, flagging, flagstone, floor, floor covering, floorboards, flooring, fond, footing, foundation, fundament, fundamental, gravel, ground, ground cloth, ground-sheet, grounds, groundwork, hardpan, kerb, kerbstone, lath and plaster, macadam, masonry, mat, mortar, parquet, pave, pavestone, paving, paving material, paving stone, plasters, prestressed concrete, principle, radical, riprap, road metal, rock bottom, roofage, roofing, rudiment, rug, seat, siding, sill, solid ground, solid rock, stereobate, stone, stylobate, substratum, substruction, substructure, surfacing, tarmacadam, terra firma, tile, tiling, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underpinning, understruction, understructure, walling, washboard, welcome mat

Etymology
, from pavemant:, from  pavimentum:, from pavio:

Translations

 * Arabic: طوار, رصيف
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: vorera
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian: trotoar
 * Czech:
 * Danish: fortov
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: jalkakäytävä, katukäytävä
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Interlingua: trottoir


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 舗道, 舗装
 * Kurdish:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: тротоар
 * Roman: trotoar
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh: palmant


 * Bosnian:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: vejbelægning
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: tiepäällyste
 * French:
 * German:
 * Interlingua: pavimento


 * Italian: pavimentazione stradale
 * Kurdish:
 * Polish: nawierzchnia drogi
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: плочник
 * Roman: pločnik
 * Turkish: