Definitions for pave

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pave pave

Spelling: [peyv]

IPA: /peɪv/

Pave is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in pave (aepv).

Definitions for pave

noun

1. Southern Louisiana. a paved road.
2. a pavement.
3. Jewelry. a setting of stones placed close together so as to show no metal between them.

Idioms

1. pave the way to / for, to prepare for and facilitate the entrance of; lead up to:

adverb

1. Jewelry. in the manner of a pavé; as a pavé:

adjective

1. Also, pavéd, pavéed. being set pavé:

verb (used with object)

1. to cover or lay (a road, walk, etc.) with concrete, stones, bricks, tiles, wood, or the like, so as to make a firm, level surface.

Origin of pave

1275-1325; Middle English paven Middle French paver Vulgar Latin *pavare, for Latin pavīre to beat, ram, tread down

Examples for pave

This is a time of transition, but I am excited to work with our team—both new and old alike—as we pave a new way forward.

Maybe the boys in France and Wales will pave the way for this change.

Taylor Swift just used a calculated business decision, cloaked in artistic integrity, to pave the way for a digital music war.

We often see that evil succeeds by using that to pave the way.

It was not—but why should I go on saying what it was not to pave the way to saying what it was?

These are accomplishments which one and all will pave the way to make contempt impossible.

In contrast, a successful outcome on the nuclear issue could pave the way for progress on other issues of concern with Iran.

The first in the room, to knock down the door, to break down the barriers, to pave the road that we all walk on.

It is your part to pave the way for this deception; mine to maintain it.

Above their heads screamed the shells which were to pave the way for their advance.