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pavement
/ ˈ±è±ðɪ±¹³¾É™²Ô³Ù /
noun
- a hard-surfaced path for pedestrians alongside and a little higher than a road US and Canadian wordsidewalk
- a paved surface, esp one that is a thoroughfare
- the material used in paving
- civil engineering the hard layered structure that forms a road carriageway, airfield runway, vehicle park, or other paved areas
- geology a level area of exposed rock resembling a paved road See limestone pavement
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±è²¹±¹±ð·³¾±ð²Ô·³Ù²¹±ô [peyv-, men, -tl], adjective
- ±è°ù±ð·±è²¹±¹±ðm±ð²Ô³Ù noun
- ²õ³Ü²ú·±è²¹±¹±ðm±ð²Ô³Ù noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of pavement1
Idioms and Phrases
- pound the pavement, Informal. to walk the streets in order to accomplish something:
If you're going to find work you'd better start pounding the pavement.
More idioms and phrases containing pavement
see pound the pavement .Example Sentences
The street has a myriad of shops and hot food options but the queue which snaked along the pavement was only interested in one - fish and chips.
Several weeks later a large brown bear was captured on video running through the centre of the nearby town of Liptovsky Mikolas in broad daylight, bounding past cars and lunging at people on the pavement.
Rather than spend tax payers' money on administration and consultancy fees, councils will be able to invest in fixing pavements, dropping kerbs, installing seats, improving bus shelters and making streets safer for all, he added.
Before becoming a writer, I was a New York City dog walker, pounding the pavement Monday through Friday to pay the bills.
Meanwhile, over in Reading people decorated a street with banners, drawings and chalked messages on pavements to celebrate the fourth birthday of their neighbour Felix in May 2020.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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