Passageway vs Pavement - What's the difference?
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A covered walkway, between rooms or buildings.
* 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2
Any way for passing in, out or through something.
Any paved floor.
* Milton
(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 (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.
As nouns the difference between passageway and pavement
is that passageway is a covered walkway, between rooms or buildings while pavement is any paved floor.passageway
English
Noun
(en noun)- The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway . David could hear the twins breathing in time with each other.
pavement
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Noun
(en-noun)- The riches of heaven's pavement , trodden gold.
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.}}