pavementとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪvmənt/

名詞

pavement (usually uncountable, 複数形 pavements)

1. (now chiefly in technical contexts) A paved surface; a hard covering on the ground. [from 13th c.]
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 1”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold.

2. (now chiefly Canada, 米国用法) The paved part of a road or other thoroughfare; the roadway. [from 13th c.]
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 53:

     [H]e attempted to recover his importance, by haranguing upon the Roman highways, when Mr. Jolter desired the company to take notice of the fine pavement upon which they travelled from Paris into Flanders […] .

   • 1991, Airpower Journal 1911, page 45:

     The antirunway munitions are specifically designed to cause maximum destruction to airfield pavements.

3. A paved footpath, especially at the side of a road. [from 18th c.]
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.

4. (architecture) The interior flooring of a church sanctuary, between the communion rail and the altar. [from 19th c.]

同意語

• (footpath): sidewalk (米国用法), footpath, footway, platform
• (surface of road): roadway (米国用法), road surface (米国用法); paving

派生語

• hit the pavement
• pavement cafe
• pavement pizza
• pound the pavement