Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
covered with a firm surface;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
paved \paved\ adj.
1. covered with a firm surface; -- of pathways or roadways.
[Narrower terms: asphalt, macadam, macadamized, tarmac,
tarmacadam; blacktopped, brick, cobblestone,
cobblestoned] [Ant: unpaved]
Syn: hard-surfaced, surfaced, made-up [British], sealed
[Australian].
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pave \Pave\ (p[=a]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paved (p[=a]vd); p.
pr. & vb. n. Paving.] [F. paver to pave, LL. pavare, from
L. pavire to beat, ram, or tread down; cf. Gr. pai`ein to
beat, strike.]
1. To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so
as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for
vehicles, horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel
on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material;
as, to pave a street; to pave a court.
[1913 Webster]
With silver paved, and all divine with gold.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
To pave thy realm, and smooth the broken ways.
--Gay.
[1913 Webster]
2. Fig.: To make smooth, easy, and safe; to prepare, as a
path or way; as, to pave the way to promotion; to pave the
way for an enterprise.
[1913 Webster]
It might open and pave a prepared way to his own
title. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
paved
adj 1: covered with a firm surface [ant: unpaved]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "paved":
armored, cased, ceiled, cloaked, clouded, coated, coped, covered,
covert, cowled, curtained, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled,
encased, enveloped, enwrapped, filmed, floored, hooded, housed,
loricate, loricated, mantled, masked, muffled, obscured, occulted,
packaged, roofed-in, screened, scummed, sheathed, shelled,
shielded, shrouded, swathed, tented, under cover, veiled, walled,
walled-in, wrapped