PAVED SURFACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paved surface mean? 

• PAVED SURFACE (noun)
  The noun PAVED SURFACE has 1 sense:

1. a level horizontal surface covered with paving material

  Familiarity information: PAVED SURFACE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAVED SURFACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A level horizontal surface covered with paving material

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("paved surface" is a kind of...):

horizontal surface; level (a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "paved surface"):

apron (a paved surface where aircraft stand while not being used)

pavement; paving (the paved surface of a thoroughfare)

road surface (the paved surface of a paved roadway)

runway (a strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land)

skidpan (a paved surface on which cars can be made to skid so that drivers can practice controlling them)

macadam; tarmac; tarmacadam (a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar)

taxi strip; taxiway (a paved surface in the form of a strip; used by planes taxiing to or from the runway at an airport)