Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act or technique of laying pavement.
  • noun A pavement.
  • noun Material used for pavement.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The laying of floors, streets, etc., with pavement, Pavement.

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

  • noun The act or process of laying a pavement, or covering some place with a pavement.
  • noun A pavement.

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

  • verb Present participle of pave.
  • noun The hard durable surface placed directly atop the ground, as on a street or sidewalk.
  • noun Interior pavement, as in a cathedral.
  • adjective Pertaining to the material used for pavement, or to the surface itself.

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

  • noun the act of applying paving materials to an area
  • noun the paved surface of a thoroughfare
  • noun material used to pave an area

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