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PAVED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Covered with a firm surface
Classified under:
Similar:
made-up; sealed (having been paved)
Antonym:
unpaved (not having a paved surface)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb pave
Context examples:
The road was still paved with yellow brick, but these were much covered by dried branches and dead leaves from the trees, and the walking was not at all good.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Not a blind was raised; no sign of life was in the dull paved court, with its covered way leading to the disused door.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Under the long green-paved avenues of gnarled oaks and of lichened beeches the white-robed brothers gathered to the sound.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sometimes the rattle of the stones told of a paved causeway, and at others our smooth, silent course suggested asphalt; but, save by this variation in sound, there was nothing at all which could in the remotest way help me to form a guess as to where we were.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was field upon field of ripening grain, with well-paved roads running between, and pretty rippling brooks with strong bridges across them.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
It appeared to me, on looking over the tradesmen's books, as if we might have kept the basement storey paved with butter, such was the extensive scale of our consumption of that article.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick, said the Witch, so you cannot miss it.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
For being of an inquisitive disposition, and unable to confine herself (as her positive instructions were) to the pantry, she was constantly peering in at us, and constantly imagining herself detected; in which belief, she several times retired upon the plates (with which she had carefully paved the floor), and did a great deal of destruction.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
So the Tin Woodman shouldered his axe and they all passed through the forest until they came to the road that was paved with yellow brick.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Mr. Spenlow conducted me through a paved courtyard formed of grave brick houses, which I inferred, from the Doctors' names upon the doors, to be the official abiding-places of the learned advocates of whom Steerforth had told me; and into a large dull room, not unlike a chapel to my thinking, on the left hand.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
