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In a minute he found a green path, and in the path was his papa, who had just shot a cruel crow.

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  1. noun A trodden track or way.
  2. noun A road, way, or track made for a particular purpose: a bicycle path.
  3. noun The route or course along which something travels or moves: the path of a hurricane.
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  • It looks like nothing happens, but the path is actually stored in the paths dialog. —  Pixel2Life.com: Latest 15 Tutorials
  • Sometimes extremist of other religions might say to a Buddhist, "Your path is a false one and when you die you will go straight to hell." —  Dreaming Of Danzan Ravjaa
  • [It also means that] persistence in this path is the best way to continue advancing towards a better [future].
  • Obama's penchant for symbolism took him to a locale that indicates how rough our path will be as we scale our mammoth economic problems. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • Think taking the $10 million or so in cash that the Devil placed in your path might be a bad idea? —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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  1. Middle English, from Old English pæth; see pent- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English path, peth, from Anglo-Saxon pæth (plural pathas), Old Saxon *path (not recorded) = OFries. pad, path = Dutch pad = Middle Low German pat, Low German pad = Old High German pad, phad, phath, fad, pfad, Middle High German phat, pfat, German pfad, a path, way; not in Scandinavian or Gothic (Moesogothic); cf. L. pons (pont-), a bridge (of any kind), prob. orig. a ‘path,’ ‘footway’; Greek πάτος, a path, way (πατεῑν, walk); = Sanskrit panthan (stem in some cases pathī, path) = Zend path, pathan, a path, way. Cf. Russian Putĭ, way, road. The Teutonic word cannot be cognate with the Greek, Sanskrit, etc. (Greek πάτος would require a Teutonic *fath); if connected at all, it must have been borrowed at a very early period, mediately from the Greek or immediately from a “Scythian” source. Cf. hemp, supposed to have been borrowed in early times under similar conditions.
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