Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a pavement.
  • Resembling pavement; formed into a structure or combination like pavement: as, the paved teeth of some fishes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective covered with a firm surface; -- of pathways or roadways.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Covered in pavement; having a hard surface, as of concrete or asphalt.
  • adjective figuratively Laid out or made, as intentions, desires, plans, etc.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of pave.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective covered with a firm surface

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Examples

  • Back then it was a scratched existence like hundreds of unseen small villages far off the main paved Carretera, throughout Mexico where life was what it was.

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  • Back then it was a scratched existence like hundreds of unseen small villages far off the main paved Carretera, throughout Mexico where life was what it was.

    What happened to the worm, in Mezcal? 2009

  • Back then it was a scratched existence like hundreds of unseen small villages far off the main paved Carretera, throughout Mexico where life was what it was.

    What happened to the worm, in Mezcal? 2009

  • Back then it was a scratched existence like hundreds of unseen small villages far off the main paved Carretera, throughout Mexico where life was what it was.

    What happened to the worm, in Mezcal? 2009

  • Back then it was a scratched existence like hundreds of unseen small villages far off the main paved Carretera, throughout Mexico where life was what it was.

    What happened to the worm, in Mezcal? 2009

  • Back then it was a scratched existence like hundreds of unseen small villages far off the main paved Carretera, throughout Mexico where life was what it was.

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  • For those women who do become mothers, however, medical advances have again paved the way.

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  • “Town” is basically a strip of hotels and restaurants along the side of this main paved road that heads into the park.

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  • “Town” is basically a strip of hotels and restaurants along the side of this main paved road that heads into the park.

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  • This outward style of growth has also left behind brownfields, areas contaminated (or perceived to be contaminated) with chemicals, and grayfields - areas that are no longer used but which remain paved over.

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