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pave⋅ment

  [peyv-muhnt]
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–noun
1. a paved road, highway, etc.
2. a paved surface, ground covering, or floor.
3. a material used for paving.
4. Atlantic States and British. sidewalk.
—Idiom
5. pound the pavement, Informal. to walk the streets in order to accomplish something: If you're going to find work you'd better start pounding the pavement.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME < OF < L pavīmentum. See pave, -ment

Related forms:
pave⋅men⋅tal  [peyv-men-tl] , adjective
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pave·ment   (pāv'mənt)   
n.  
    1. A hard smooth surface, especially of a public area or thoroughfare, that will bear travel.
    2. The material with which such a surface is made.
  2. Chiefly British A sidewalk.
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Pavement

Pave"ment\, n. [F., fr. LL. pavamentum, L. pavimentum. See Pave.] 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 (Zo["o]l.), flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side by side, like tiles in a pavement.

Pavement

Pave"ment\, v. t. To furnish with a pavement; to pave. [Obs.] "How richly pavemented!" --Bp. Hall.
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Language Translation for : pavement
Spanish: calzada, pavimento,
German: der Bürgersteig,
Japanese: 歩道
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pavement 
c.1290, from O.Fr. paviment, from L. pavimentum "beaten floor," from pavire (see pave).
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Pavement

It was the custom of the Roman governors to erect their tribunals in open places, as the market-place, the circus, or even the highway. Pilate caused his seat of judgment to be set down in a place called "the Pavement" (John 19:13) i.e., a place paved with a mosaic of coloured stones. It was probably a place thus prepared in front of the "judgment hall." (See GABBATHA.)

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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pavement

see pound the pavement.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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