pavement

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A paved path at the side of a road for people to walk on.

   Children were cycling along the pavement outside the school.

2. 2
   noun

   A hard, paved surface on the ground.

   The rain made the pavement slippery and wet.

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.

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