To pave is to coat or cover with a very hard material, like concrete, asphalt, or stone. It's easier to shovel snow from your driveway after you pave it.
To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material;
Noun
a setting with precious stones so closely set that no metal shows
Verb
cover with a material such as stone or concrete to make suitable for vehicle traffic; "pave the roads in the village"
n.
The pavement.
v. t.
To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so
as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for horses, carriages,
or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other
solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court.
v. t.
Fig.: To make smooth, easy, and safe; to prepare, as a
path or way; as, to pave the way to promotion; to pave the way for an
enterprise.
Pave
With silver paved, and all divine with gold.
To pave thy realm, and smooth the broken ways.2.
It might open and pave a prepared way to his own title.
To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material;
Usage Examples
Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.
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Other Usage ExamplesLeadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.
Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water.
Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.
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