a hard-surfaced path for pedestrians alongside and a little higher than a road
US and Canadian word: sidewalkthe material used in paving
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
pave•ment /ˈpeɪvmənt/USA pronunciation
n.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- Civil Engineering[countable] a paved road, highway, etc.
- Civil Engineering a paved surface or floor:[uncountable]streets with cracked and broken pavement.
pave•ment
(pāv′mənt),USA pronunciation n.
pave•men•tal
(pāv men′tl),USA pronunciation adj.
- Civil Engineeringa paved road, highway, etc.
- Civil Engineeringa paved surface, ground covering, or floor.
- Civil Engineeringa material used for paving.
- British Terms, Dialect Terms[Atlantic States and Brit.]sidewalk.
- Idioms 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.
- Latin pavīmentum. See pave, -ment
- Old French
- 1250–1300; Middle English
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'pavement' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
HOV lane
- Priestley
- asarotum
- bed
- belt
- blinding
- bouldering
- burn
- calk
- clippety-clop
- concrete
- curbside
- diamond lane
- flagging
- footpath
- footprint
- footworn
- grating
- hopscotch
- jackhammer
- kerb
- kerb crawling
- labyrinth
- laurence
- lute
- macadam
- outside
- pave
- pavement artist
- pavement light
- paving
- people mover
- pillar box
- pitch
- pointel
- pothole
- pound
- rumble strip
- screed
- sidewalk
- sizzle
- slab
- slip form
- speed bump
- subgrade
- telford
- vault light