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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a path.

Etymologies

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path +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Farther down a pathlike level followed the side of the hill, ending abruptly in a walled fall, and a confusion of broken beams, iron braces, and section of a large, wheel-like circumference.

    The Three Black Pennys A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • Not until they had rushed up out of the coulee and had reached the pathlike trail did the screaming cease.

    The Hunted Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • The valley winds northward, curving like a brook, and in the trough a narrow green band of dark grass follows the windings, a pathlike ribbon as deeply coloured as a fairy ring, and showing between the slopes of pale turf.

    The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies 1867

  • i could see the reason for it if a person was physically unable to go into the woods, but i would still expect them to not sit right in a public road, but maybe off of pathlike roads that a quad could go on.

    Road Side Hunters 2010

  • i could see the reason for it if a person was physically unable to go into the woods, but i would still expect them to not sit right in a public road, but maybe off of pathlike roads that a quad could go on.

    Road Side Hunters 2010

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