noun
- a pavement.
- material for paving.
- the laying of a pavement.
verb (used with object), paved, pav·ing.
- to cover or lay (a road, walk, etc.) with concrete, stones, bricks, tiles, wood, or the like, so as to make a firm, level surface.
noun
- Southern Louisiana. a paved road.
Idioms
- pave the way to/for, to prepare for and facilitate the entrance of; lead up to: His analysis of the college market paved the way for their entry into textbook publishing.
noun
- a paved surface; pavement
- material used for a pavement, such as paving stones, bricks, or asphalt
adjective
- of or for a paved surface or pavement
- preparatory, facilitating, enablingpaving legislation
verb (tr)
- to cover (a road, path, etc) with a firm surface suitable for travel, as with paving stones or concrete
- to serve as the material for a pavement or other hard layerbricks paved the causeway
- (often foll by with) to cover with a hard layer (of)shelves paved with marble
- to prepare or make easier (esp in the phrase pave the way)to pave the way for future development
noun
- a paved surface, esp an uneven one
- a style of setting gems so closely that no metal shows
v.early 14c., “to cover (a street) with stones or other material,” from Old French paver “to pave” (12c.), perhaps a back-formation from Old French pavement or else from Vulgar Latin *pavare, from Latin pavire “to beat, ram, tread down,” from PIE *pau- “to cut, strike, stamp” (cf. Latin putare “to prune;” Greek paiein “to strike;” Lithuanian piauju “to cut,” piuklas “saw”). Related: Paved; paving. The figurative sense of “make smooth” (as in pave the way) is attested from 1580s.