pavement

noun pavements

1. uncountable, usually A paved surface; a hard covering on the ground. The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold.
2. Canada, Ireland, Mid Atlantic, South Africa, UK, US A paved path, for the use of pedestrians, located at the side of a road. It was a cold and rainy afternoon as Ethel Churchill sat at the window of their new abode, a house in one of the streets leading from the Strand to the river. It was the day after their arrival, and nothing could well be more gloomy than the view: the pavement was wet, and a yellow mist obscured eve

   Similar: sidewalk, footpath, trottoir

3. Canada, US, uncountable, usually A paving (paved part) of a road or other thoroughfare; the roadway or road surface. [H]e attempted to recover his importance, by haranguing upon the Roman highways, when Mr. Jolter desired the company to take notice of the fine pavement upon which they travelled from Paris into Flanders […].
4. Canada, US, uncountable, usually The paved part of an area other than a road or sidewalk, such as a cobblestone plaza, asphalt schoolyard or playground, or parking lot.
5. uncountable, usually Interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings. ...that took them to a brief rise of marble stairs that should've put them on the third-and-a-halfth floor if it'd been anywhere but Hogwarts, and then it was back to tiled stone pavement again, and...
6. uncountable, usually The interior flooring of a church sanctuary, between the communion rail and the altar.