Noun

(en noun)

A passage for pedestrians only.

Noun

(en-noun)

Any paved floor.

* Milton

The riches of heaven's pavement , trodden gold.

(chiefly, British) A paved footpath, especially at the side of a road.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=14 citation , passage=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.}}

(US, uncountable) Paved exterior surface, as with a road or sidewalk.

The interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings such as a cathedral.