paven

See also: påven

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peɪvən/
• Rhymes: -eɪvən

Etymology 1

Noun

paven (plural pavens)

1. Alternative form of Paduan (“stately Spanish dance”)

Etymology 2

From pave +‎ -en (past participle ending).

Adjective

paven (not comparable)

1. (rare, dated or archaic) paved
   • 1897, F. Harald Williams, Matin Bells and Scarlet and Gold, page 104:

     Firm as a paven road sprang what had seemed a hearse, Meet to uplift the load of a great universe; […]

   • 1949, John Masefield, On the hill, page 18:

     A paven road or gathered tax
     But partly yield him what he lacks.

   • 1999, Lin Carter, The Quest of Kadji, page 118:

     The architecture was bewildering in its multiform complexity: great, sleepy-lidded faces of stone gazed down from the eight-sided towers; fantastic dragon-hybrids writhed entangled coils above portal and arch; many-armed and beast-headed gods thronged the paven ways, lining entire avenues in rank on rank of carven stone idols so innumerable as to suggest pantheons as populous as dynasties.

   • 2005, Sylvia Kelso, Everran's Bane, page 73:

     After Kelflase a paven road replaced the half-finished horse-track, another sick-bed project, but it was still not fast enough for the king.

Danish

Noun

paven c sg

1. definite singular of pave

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

paven m sg

1. definite singular of pave

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

paven m sg

1. definite singular of pave