Definitions for paths

• Definition
• Anagrams (76)

paths path

Spelling: [path, pahth]

IPA: /pæθ, pɑθ/

Paths is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in paths (ahpst).

Definitions for paths

noun

1. a way beaten, formed, or trodden by the feet of persons or animals.
2. a narrow walk or way:
3. a route, course, or track along which something moves:
4. a course of action, conduct, or procedure:
5. Mathematics. a continuous curve that connects two or more points.
6. Computers. the sequence of steps that a computer follows in carrying out a routine, as in storing and retrieving a file at a specific location.

Idioms

1. cross one's path, to encounter or meet unexpectedly:

Origin of paths

before 900; Middle English; Old English pæth; cognate with German Pfad

Examples for paths

We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.

Rubio has his own troubles with immigration, but people close to him said he still may have a path even with a Bush candidacy.

The path may be there, but current travelers to Sudan face a bureaucratic nightmare of permits and road blocks.

A stream of water, pure as crystal, flowed along the path, from the summit to the base.

The other person for whom a path to the nomination, let alone a candidacy, seems much less likely is Mitt Romney.

The anti-crime cops began searching the likely path of flight.

He had entered into the path of dishonesty, and he was forced to keep on in it.

We are charged with the sacred duty of making their path as smooth and easy as we can.

At least they will be my standard of conduct in the path before me.

Miss Milbrey had put herself bravely in the path of Destiny.