noun · informal
pavement
/ˈpeɪvmənt/PAV·e·ment
Band 5-6speaking
a raised or paved path for people to walk on at the side of a road (British English)
Examples
“I prefer walking on the pavement rather than on the road.”
“Some pavements in the city are uneven and need repairing.”
“In British English, 'pavement' means what Americans call a 'sidewalk'.”
Band 8 sentence
“In many historic neighbourhoods the narrow pavements struggle to accommodate both pedestrians and café seating.”
Collocations
- walk on the pavement
- pavement is cracked
- repair the pavement
Word family
pave verbpaved adjectivepavement noun
Common mistakes
He walked in the pavement.→He walked on the pavement.
There are no pavement in my village.→There is no pavement in my village.
Say it for a higher band
5sidewalk→6footpath→7+pavement
Synonyms
sidewalk
Easily confused
sidewalk
“She jogs along the sidewalk every morning.”
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