Pavement
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A paved footpath at the side of a road. Any paved exterior surface, as with a road or sidewalk. The interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings such as a cathedral. The material with which a surface is paved.
Example sentence: You can always recognise my restless peers and me; we are the people whose feet you hear tramping along the pavement at the other end of the phone line because we can only make calls while moving.
Paving
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To cover something with paving slabs.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Pertaining to the material used for pavement, or to the surface itself.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The hard durable surface placed directly atop the ground, as on a street or sidewalk.Interior pavement, as in a cathedral.
Example sentence: However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract between citizens and governments sharply into political thinking, paving the way for popular democracy and constitutional republicanism.