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4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pav'e \Pa`v['e]"\, n. [F., from paver to pave. See {Pave}.] The pavement. [1913 Webster] {Nymphe du pav['e]}, a prostitute who solicits in the street; a streetwalker. [A low euphemism.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pave \Pave\ (p[=a]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Paved} (p[=a]vd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Paving}.] [F. paver to pave, LL. pavare, from L. pavire to beat, ram, or tread down; cf. Gr. pai`ein to beat, strike.] 1. To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for vehicles, horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court. [1913 Webster] With silver paved, and all divine with gold. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] To pave thy realm, and smooth the broken ways. --Gay. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: To make smooth, easy, and safe; to prepare, as a path or way; as, to pave the way to promotion; to pave the way for an enterprise. [1913 Webster] It might open and pave a prepared way to his own title. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: pave n : a setting with precious stones so closely set that no metal shows v : cover with a material such as stone or concrete to make suitable for vehicle traffic; "pave the roads in the village" From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 18 Moby Thesaurus words for "pave": asphalt, blacktop, carpet, causeway, cement, cobblestone, concrete, cover, ease, facilitate, flag, floor, metal, pebble, surface, tar, tarmac, tile
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