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# paved

«paved» in Mova's school dictionary: **covered with a hard flat surface such as stones, bricks…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (paved); verb (pave, paves, paved, paving)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Paved means covered with a hard flat surface such as stones, bricks or asphalt, so people can walk or drive on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paved/#m1)

2) To pave the way for something is to make it easier for it to happen later. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paved/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a road, path or yard that is covered; problems give how much has been paved and how much is left, or the area to pave; in everyday life: paved paths in the park, a paved playground; in history: the Romans built long paved roads; phrases: «paved road», «pave the way», «paving stones»

### examples

- Workers paved 3 kilometres of road on Monday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paved/#x1)
- The path is 50 metres long and 20 metres are paved. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paved/#x2)
- How many tiles are needed to pave the yard? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paved/#x3)
- They pave 4 metres each hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paved/#x4)
- The Romans built paved roads across their empire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paved/#x5)
- We rode our bikes on the paved path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paved/#x6)
- The old track was muddy, but now it is paved. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paved/#x7)
- Her hard work paved the way for her success. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paved/#x8)
- At that time the streets were not paved, and there were no sidewalks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paved/#x9)

### note

Marks the part of a length or area that is done; the unpaved part = total minus paved. Trap: paving an area (length × width) is not the same as paving a length. Opposite: unpaved (a dirt road). «Pavement» (UK) is the path beside a road; in the USA it is the «sidewalk».

### In the corpora

- [Rome held this empire together with a professional army, the legions, and with straight paved roads.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/14-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «paved» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paved/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.