Noun

(en noun)

The religion, philosophical beliefs, and attendant ritual practices of the druids.

Noun

(en noun)

A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.

* (John Dryden)

The dewy paths of meadows we will tread.

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A course taken.

* 1900 , , , Chapter I,

Just before Warwick reached Liberty Point, a young woman came down Front Street from the direction of the market-house. When their paths converged, Warwick kept on down Front Street behind her, it having been already his intention to walk in this direction.

(paganism) A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.

A metaphorical course.

A method or direction of proceeding.

* Bible, Psalms xxv. 10

All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth.

* Gray

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

(computing) A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL

(graph theory) A sequence of vertices]] from one vertex to another using the arcs ([[edge, edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path , where only the first and the last vertex are the same).

(topology) A continuous map $f$ from the unit interval $I\; =\; [0,1]$ to a topological space $X$.