1 [C] (BrE) (AmE 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!
2 [C,U] (BrE) any area of flat stones on the ground:
a mosaic pavement
3 [U] (AmE) the surface of a road:
Two cars skidded on the icy pavement.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for pavement is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is pavement a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, pavement is tagged as noun.
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