pavement

noun

1. a paved road, highway, etc.
2. a paved surface, ground covering, or floor.
3. a material used for paving.
4. Atlantic States and British. sidewalk.

Idioms

5. 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.

noun

1. a hard-surfaced path for pedestrians alongside and a little higher than a roadUS and Canadian word: sidewalk
2. a paved surface, esp one that is a thoroughfare
3. the material used in paving
4. civil engineering the hard layered structure that forms a road carriageway, airfield runway, vehicle park, or other paved areas
5. geology a level area of exposed rock resembling a paved roadSee limestone pavement

n.mid-13c., from Old French pavement “roadway, pathway; paving stone” (12c.) and directly from Latin pavimentum “hard floor, level surface beaten firm,” from pavire (see pave). see pound the pavement.