different between paver vs cobblestone

English

Etymology

pave +? -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pe?v?/
• Rhymes: -e?v?(r)

Noun

paver (plural pavers)

1. A flat stone used to pave a pathway, such as a walkway to one's home.

   Synonyms: paver block, paving block, paving stone, flagstone

   red brick pavers

2. One who paves; one who lays pavement.

Translations

Anagrams

• parev, parve, vaper

Danish

Noun

paver c

1. indefinite plural of pave

French

Etymology

From Old French paver (“to pave, to cover”), from Vulgar Latin *pav?re (“to beat down, to smash”), from Latin pav?re, present active infinitive of pavi? (“I beat, strike, ram, tread down”), from Proto-Italic *pawj?, from Proto-Indo-European *paw- (“to strike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.ve/

Verb

paver

1. to cobble, to pave with cobblestones or something similar
2. (Canada, Quebec) to pave in any sense (including with asphalt, etc.)

Conjugation

Related terms

• pavement

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

paver m

1. indefinite plural of pave

English

Etymology

From Middle English cobylstone, cobyllstone, kobilstane, kobill-stane, equivalent to cobble +? stone. Compare Old Norse köppusteinn (“boulder”), Danish kampesten (“boulder”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?bl??sto?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?bl??st??n/
• Hyphenation: cob?ble?stone

Noun

cobblestone (plural cobblestones)

1. A rounded stone from a river bed, fit for use as ballast in ships and for paving roads.
2. (uncountable) The material made from cobblestones.

Synonyms

• cobble (as backformation)

Translations

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Further reading

• cobblestone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia