pavement
pavement is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 37 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks. The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold. Milton. Pavement teeth (Zoöl.), flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side by side, like tiles in a pavement.
- 2.To furnish with a pavement; to pave. [Obs.] "How richly pavemented!" Bp. Hall.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- base
- baseboard
- based
- basement
- basis
- bilge
- bottom
- built
- centerboard
- dado
- deck
- earth
- flag
- floor
- foot
- footing
- foundation
- fundamental
- ground
- hardpan
- hold
- hoof
- keel
- mopboard
- nadir
- nethermost
- paving
- plinth
- root
- sole
- substratum
- substructure
- support
- toe
- undermost
- wainscot
- work
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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