PAVEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pavement mean? 

• PAVEMENT (noun)
  The noun PAVEMENT has 3 senses:

1. the paved surface of a thoroughfare

2. material used to pave an area

3. walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway

  Familiarity information: PAVEMENT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAVEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The paved surface of a thoroughfare

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

pavement; paving

Hypernyms ("pavement" is a kind of...):

paved surface (a level horizontal surface covered with paving material)

Meronyms (substance of "pavement"):

paving stone (a stone used for paving)

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

curbside (the side of a sidewalk that is bordered by a curb)

Holonyms ("pavement" is a substance of...):

road; route (an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation)

pavement; sidewalk (walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway)

street (a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings)

Derivation:

pave (cover with a material such as stone or concrete to make suitable for vehicle traffic)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Material used to pave an area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

pavement; paving; paving material

Hypernyms ("pavement" is a kind of...):

artefact; artifact (a man-made object taken as a whole)

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

asphalt (mixed asphalt and crushed gravel or sand; used especially for paving but also for roofing)

concrete (a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water)

blacktop; blacktopping (a black bituminous material used for paving roads or other areas; usually spread over crushed rock)

macadam (broken stone used in macadamized roadways)

tarmac; tarmacadam (a paving material of tar and broken stone; mixed in a factory and shaped during paving)

Derivation:

pave (cover with a material such as stone or concrete to make suitable for vehicle traffic)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

pavement; sidewalk

Hypernyms ("pavement" is a kind of...):

paseo; walk; walkway (a path set aside for walking)

Meronyms (substance of "pavement"):

pavement; paving (the paved surface of a thoroughfare)

Derivation:

pave (cover with a material such as stone or concrete to make suitable for vehicle traffic)

 Context examples 

He landed me on the pavement.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Why did you beat the pavement?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Westgate Buildings must have been rather surprised by the appearance of a carriage drawn up near its pavement," observed Sir Walter.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“On the right-hand pavement—she must be almost out of sight now.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A layer of extracellular matrix found beneath the single pavement layer of cells which line the luminal surface of the entire vascular system.

(Basal Lamina of the Vascular Endothelium, NCI Thesaurus)

I see them cross the way to meet her, when her bonnet (she has a bright taste in bonnets) is seen coming down the pavement, accompanied by her sister's bonnet.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We rushed along the pavement, bare-headed as we were, and at the far corner we found a policeman standing.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They walked over a pavement of the same green marble, and where the blocks were joined together were rows of emeralds, set closely, and glittering in the brightness of the sun.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

A group of loafers upon the pavements, all staring up at a particular window, directed me to the house which I had come to see.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And never had the white men seemed such marvellous gods as now, when he trod the slimy pavement of San Francisco.

(White Fang, by Jack London)