Definitions for pavement

pavement pave·ment

Spelling: [peyv-muh nt]
IPA: /ˈpeɪv mənt/

Pavement is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 217 anagrams from letters in pavement (aeemnptv).

Definitions for pavement

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.

Idioms

  1. pound the pavement, Informal. to walk the streets in order to accomplish something:

Origin of pavement

1250-1300; Middle English Old French Latin pavīmentum. See pave, -ment

Examples for pavement

He hesitated on the pavement, his eyes searching the shadowy balcony.

The man was stretched on the pavement brutishly drunk and dead to the world.

His ardent young eyes worshiped her as he stood on the pavement.

Blood spatters on the pavement seem to confirm that he was moving toward Wilson when the instantly fatal shot was fired.

This year, however, Democratic dominance at pounding the pavement might finally be challenged.

Buzzfeed assures me that deadbeats camped out on the pavement in big cities are hipsters.

Democrats have long dominated at pounding the pavement in the Hawkeye State.

“For some unknown reason, the vehicle traveled off the pavement at a gradual angle,” the troopers wrote.

There was no indication of the six miles of pavement which later were to be Fallon's pride.

Thus it was possible to ring the doorbell from the pavement, and this the stranger did.

Word Value for pavement
Scrable

15

Words with friends

19

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