paved

paved
    adj 1: covered with a firm surface [ant: {unpaved}]
    

Pave \Pave\ (p[=a]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Paved} (p[=a]vd); p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Paving}.] [F. paver to pave, LL. pavare, from
   L. pavire to beat, ram, or tread down; cf. Gr. pai`ein to
   beat, strike.]
   1. To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so
      as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for
      vehicles, 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.
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            With silver paved, and all divine with gold.
                                                  --Dryden.
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            To pave thy realm, and smooth the broken ways.
                                                  --Gay.
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   2. 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.
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            It might open and pave a prepared way to his own
            title.                                --Bacon.
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paved \paved\ adj.
   1. covered with a firm surface; -- of pathways or roadways.
      [Narrower terms: {asphalt, macadam, macadamized, tarmac,
      tarmacadam}; {blacktopped}, {brick}, {cobblestone,
      cobblestoned}] [Ant: {unpaved}]

   Syn: hard-surfaced, surfaced, made-up [British], sealed
        [Australian].
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43 Moby Thesaurus words for "paved":
      armored, cased, ceiled, cloaked, clouded, coated, coped, covered,
      covert, cowled, curtained, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled,
      encased, enveloped, enwrapped, filmed, floored, hooded, housed,
      loricate, loricated, mantled, masked, muffled, obscured, occulted,
      packaged, roofed-in, screened, scummed, sheathed, shelled,
      shielded, shrouded, swathed, tented, under cover, veiled, walled,
      walled-in, wrapped