pavement

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A hard smooth surface, especially of a public area or thoroughfare, that will bear travel.
2. n. The material with which such a surface is made.
3. n. Chiefly British A sidewalk.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A floor or surface-covering of flags, stones, tiles, or bricks, usually laid in cement, but sometimes merely on a foundation of earth, or, particularly in ancient examples, accurately fitted in masonry without artificial bond; also, such a covering made of concrete (see concrete, n., 3), and sometimes of wood. Pavements are often made in a mosaic of stone, more or less artistic in character, or of glazed or unglazed tiles, sometimes by their color or decoration forming elaborate designs. See also cut under encaustic.
2. n. The material of which such a flooring is made: as, the pavement is tile.
3. n. The flagged or paved footway on each side of a street; a sidewalk.
4. n. In anatomy and zoö., a paved structure; a formation like pavement.
5. n. In coal-mining, the seam of fire-clay which usually underlies a seam of coal.
6. To pave; floor with stone, bricks, tiles, or the like.

Wiktionary

1. n. A paved footpath at the side of a road.
2. n. Paved exterior surface, as with a road or sidewalk.
3. n. The interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings such as a cathedral.
4. n. The material with which a surface is paved.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. That with which anything is paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks.
2. v. To furnish with a pavement; to pave.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. material used to pave an area
2. n. walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway
3. n. the paved surface of a thoroughfare