pavement
noun/ˈpeɪvmənt/
/ˈpeɪvmənt/
- [countable] (British English) (North American English sidewalk)a flat part at the side of a road for people to walk on
- a pavement cafe
- Don’t ride your bike on the pavement!
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by car or lorryb2- The car mounted the pavement and crashed into a lamp post.
- A narrow pavement ran along the side of the road.
- The man suddenly stepped off the pavement into the road.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- wide
- narrow
- hard
- …
- step off
- step onto
- keep to
- …
- cafe
- table
- terrace
- …
- along the pavement
- down the pavement
- on the pavement
- …
- the edge of the pavement
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- [countable, uncountable] any area of flat stones on the ground
- a mosaic pavement
- [uncountable] (North American English) the surface of a road
- Two cars skidded on the icy pavement.
- [countable] (geology) a large flat area of rock with nothing growing on it
- a limestone pavement
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French, from Latin pavimentum ‘trodden down floor’, from pavire ‘beat, tread down’.
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