n. A floor or surface-covering of flags, stones, tiles, or bricks, usually laid in cement, but sometimes merely on a foundation of earth, or, particularly in ancient examples, accurately fitted in masonry without artificial bond; also, such a covering made of concrete (see concrete, n., 3), and sometimes of wood.n. The material of which such a flooring is made: as, the pavement is tile.n. The flagged or paved footway on each side of a street; a sidewalk.n. In anatomy and zoö., a paved structure; a formation like pavement.n. In coal-mining, the seam of fire-clay which usually underlies a seam of coal.To pave; floor with stone, bricks, tiles, or the like.