different between pavement vs roadbed

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman pavement, Middle French pavement, and their source, Latin pav?mentum (“paved surface or floor”), from pavire (“to beat, to ram, to tread down”).

Morphologically pave +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe?vm?nt/

Noun

pavement (usually uncountable, plural pavements)

1. (now chiefly in technical contexts) A paved surface; a hard covering on the ground. [from 13th c.]
2. (now chiefly Canada, US) 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. (now chiefly Canada, US) The paved part of an area other than a road or sidewalk, such as a cobblestone plaza, asphalt schoolyard or playground, or parking lot.
4. A paved footpath, especially at the side of a road. [from 18th c.]
5. (architecture) The interior flooring of a church sanctuary, between the communion rail and the altar. [from 19th c.]

Synonyms

• (footpath): sidewalk (US), footpath, footway, platform
• (surface of road): roadway (US), road surface (US); paving

Derived terms

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

Translations

See also

• footpath
• sidewalk
• pavement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Old French pavement, from the verb paver +? -ment, based on Latin pavimentum (“a hard surface, a pounded surface”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pav.m??/

Noun

pavement m (plural pavements)

1. paving
2. tiled floor

Further reading

• “pavement” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

paver +? -ment, based on Latin pavimentum (“a hard surface, a pounded surface”).

Noun

pavement m (oblique plural pavemenz or pavementz, nominative singular pavemenz or pavementz, nominative plural pavement)

1. a paved room

Descendants

• ? English: pavement
  • ? Welsh: palmant, paement
• French: pavement

English

Etymology

road +? bed

Noun

roadbed (plural roadbeds)

1. The prepared location for a road, including its foundation.
2. A trackbed.

References

• “roadbed”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• aborded, boarded, deboard