1. [n]  the paved surface of a thoroughfare
2. [n]  walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway
3. [n]  material used to pave an area

Pavement
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1. \Pave"ment\, n. [F., fr. LL. pavamentum, L. pavimentum.
   See {Pave}.]
   That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of
   solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient
   surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative
   interior floor of tiles or colored bricks.
         The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold.
                                                  --Milton.
   {Pavement teeth} (Zo["o]l.), flattened teeth which in certain
      fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side
      by side, like tiles in a pavement.
   

2. \Pave"ment\, v. t.
   To furnish with a pavement; to pave. [Obs.] ``How richly
   pavemented!'' --Bp. Hall.
   

It was the custom of the Roman governors to erect their tribunals in open places, as the market-place, the circus, or even the highway. Pilate caused his seat of judgment to be set down in a place called "the Pavement" (John 19:13) i.e., a place paved with a mosaic of coloured stones. It was probably a place thus prepared in front of the "judgment hall." (See GABBATHA.)