'Pavement' definitions:
Definition of 'pavement'
(from WordNet)
noun
The paved surface of a thoroughfare [syn: pavement, paving]
noun
Material used to pave an area [syn: paving, pavement, paving material]
noun
Walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway [syn: sidewalk, pavement]
Definition of 'Pavement'
From: GCIDE
- Pavement \Pave"ment\, v. t. To furnish with a pavement; to pave. [Obs.] "How richly pavemented!" --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pavement'
From: GCIDE
- Pavement \Pave"ment\, n. [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. [1913 Webster]
- The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Pavement teeth (Zool.), flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side by side, like tiles in a pavement. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'pavement'
From: Easton
- Pavement It was the custom of the Roman governors to erect their tribunals in open places, as the market-place, the circus, or even the highway. Pilate caused his seat of judgment to be set down in a place called "the Pavement" (John 19:13) i.e., a place paved with a mosaic of coloured stones. It was probably a place thus prepared in front of the "judgment hall." (See GABBATHA.)
Synonyms of 'pavement'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Tarmac,
- tarmacadam,
- Tarvia,
- terra firma,
- tile,
- tiling,
- underbuilding,
- undercarriage,
- undergirding,
- underpinning,
- understruction,
- understructure,
- walling,
- washboard,
- welcome mat