path
/pɑːθ/[pʰɑːθ]
path noun: a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
Noun (1)
path (plural paths)
- A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
- Yet ere to to-morrow's ſun ſhall ſhew his head, / The dewy paths of meadows we will tread, / For crowns and chaplets to adorn thy head.a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus. From the 18th Idyllium of Theocritus.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob]...
- I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big...1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- track
- A course taken.
- the path of a meteor, of a caravan, or of a storm
- Just before Warwick reached Liberty Point, a young woman came down Front Street from the direction of the market-house. When their paths converged, Warwick kept on down Front Street behind her, it having been already his intention to walk in this direction.1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC
- A metaphorical course or route; progress.
- But thou and I have shaken hands,
Till growing winters lay me low;
My paths are in the fields I know,
And thine in undiscover’d lands.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXIX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 61 - As I explored the possibility of a library science path, having previously been employed in libraries during my school career and afterwards, I decided that I needed to actually experience work in a library setting full time again […]2002, Priscilla K. Shontz, Steven J. Oberg, Jump Start Your Career in Library and Information Science, page 21
- But thou and I have shaken hands,
- A method or direction of proceeding.
- All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 25:10
- The paths of glory lead but to the grave.1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R[ichard] Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley...
- A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
- A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL.
- Use the network path \\Marketing\Files to find the documents you need.
- A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path, where only the first and the last vertex are the same).
- A continuous map f from the unit interval I=[0,1] to a topological space X.
- A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains.
- "Permissive" working allows more than one train to be in a block section at one time but trains must be run at low speed in order to stop on sight behind the train in front. Such working is often authorised to allow freight trains to "bunch" together to await a path through a bottleneck instead of...1962 October, “Talking of Trains: The collisions at Connington”, in Modern Railways, page 232
- ... while the planned hourly fast 'Connect' service from Middlesbrough to Newcastle has been postponed indefinitely due to problems in finding paths for it on the East Coast main line.2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival: December 2019 changes”, in Modern Railways, page 78
Verb
path (third-person singular simple present paths, present participle pathing, simple past and past participle pathed)
- To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).
- His ghoſtly counſells onely doe aduiſe, / The meanes hovv Langlies progenie may riſe, / Pathing young Henries vnaduiſed vvaies, / A Duke of Yorke from Cambridge houſe to raiſe, […]1597, Michaell [i.e., Michael] Drayton, “Duke Humfrey to Elinor Cobham”, in Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] Ling, […], →OCLC, folio 56, verso
- To navigate through a file system directory tree (to a desired file or folder).
- Next, you need to path to the location of the executable and run it from there.
- To pathfind.
Noun (2)
path (uncountable)
path meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
path in Hindi
- a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians
- पथ path, पगडंडी pagḍaṇḍī
- a course taken
- पथ path, मार्ग mārg
- a metaphorical course
- पथ path, मार्ग mārg
- a method or direction of proceeding
- पथ path
path in Tamil
- a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians
- பாதை pātai
path in Marathi
- a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians
- पथ path
- a metaphorical course
- मार्ग mārga
- computing: a specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure
- पाथ pāth
path in Urdu
- a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians
- پَتھ path
More languagesFewer languages
- path in Bengali
- তরিকা torika, পথ poth
- path in Telugu
- కాలిబాట kālibāṭa, దారి dāri, మార్గం mārgaṁ
- path in Malayalam
- പാത pāta, വഴി vaḻi
- path in Kannada
- ಮಾರ್ಗ mārga, ಹಾದಿ hādi, ಗತಿ gati
- path in Punjabi
- ਮਾਰਗ mārag, ਡਗਰ ḍagar, ਪਥ path, دروازہ darvāzah
- path in Gujarati
- માર્ગ mārg, રસ્તો rasto
- path in Odia
- ଅୟନ ayana
- path in Sanskrit
- पथ patha, पन्थ pantha
- path in Assamese
- আলি ali
- path in Nepali
- मार्ग mārga
- path in Pashto
- لار lār
- path in Tagalog
- landas, daan, pinagdaraanan, paraan
- path in Arabic
- طَرِيق ṭarīq, صِرَاط ṣirāṭ, مَسَار masār, مَحَجَّة maḥajja
- path in Malay
- jalan
- path in Indonesian
- jalan, jalur
- path in Thai
- รอย rɔɔi, ทาง taang
- path in Vietnamese
- đường mòn, lối đi, đường đi, con đường
- path in Myanmar
- လမ်း lam:, ကြောင်း kraung:
Examples of path in a sentence
- The path rises as you approach the foot of the hill.
- This will slow the main code path down, but only by delta.
- An e-mail address with an ! is called a bang path.
Synonyms of path
Forms of path
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | paths |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | paths |
| present participle | pathing |
| past participle | pathed |
| past | pathed |
Origin of path
From Middle English path, peth, from Old English pæþ (“path, track”), from Proto-West Germanic *paþ, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path”). The Proto-Germanic term is possibly borrowed from Iranian, from Proto-Iranian *pántaHs, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pántaHs, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s, from the root *pent- (“to pass”), but this is disputed. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Paad, Pad (“path”), West Frisian paad (“path”), Dutch pad (“path”), German Pfad (“path”), German Low German Padd (“path”), Luxembourgish Pad (“path”). Indo-Iranian cognates could be Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬧𐬙𐬃 (paṇtā̊, “way”), Old Persian 𐎱𐎰 (p-θ /paθi/), Hindi पथ (path), Sanskrit पन्था (panthā, “path”). See also English find. Doublet of panth.
Shortening.
Words formed from path
- airpath
- basepath
- bridlepath
- bridle-path
- build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door
- by-path
- cart path
- cess path
- cowpath
- cross someone's path
- cyberpath
- drag path
- edgepath
- eigenpath
- flarepath
- flowpath
- garden-path
- garden path sentence
- garden-path sentence
- halterpath
- heelpath
- hotpath
- hyperpath
- keypath
- lead someone down the garden path, lead someone up the garden path
- lifepath
- lightpath
- moonpath
- multipath
- null path length
- off the beaten path
- on-path attack
- path analysis
- pathbreaker
- pathbreaking
- path cascade
- path-connected
- path dependence
- path dependency
- pather
- pathfind
- pathfinder
- pathfinding
- pathful
- path integral formalism
- pathion
- path length
- pathless
- pathlet
- pathlike
- pathline
- path loss
- pathmaker
- pathmaster
- pathname
- path of least resistance
- path of totality
- path rush
- pathside
- path tracer
Phrases with path
- bang path
- base path
- bike path
- boom path
- data path
- herd path
- life path
- tool path
- click path
- cycle path
- flare path
- glide path
63 more phrasesFewer phrases
- happy path
- Honea Path
- Kisan Path
- swept path
- bridle path
- desire path
- flight path
- forced path
- garden path
- middle path
- path losses
- return path
- sample path
- speech path
- spirit path
- towing path
- zombie path
- bicycle path
- path lengths
- path tracers
- path tracing
- Shaheed Path
- thought path
- absolute path
- critical path
- directed path
- Eulerian path
- path cascades
- primrose path
- eightfold path
- left-hand path
- mean free path
- path traversal
- path traversals
- right-hand path
- shared use path
- undirected path
- Hamiltonian path
- left-handed path
- path dependences
- null path lengths
- path dependencies
- right-handed path
- XML Path Language
- noble eightfold path
- garden path sentences
- crossed someone's path
- crosses someone's path
- crossing someone's path
- led someone up the garden path
- lead someone up the garden path
- leads someone up the garden path
- led someone down the garden path
- lead someone down the garden path
- take someone down the garden path
- tane someone down the garden path
- took someone down the garden path
- leading someone up the garden path
- leads someone down the garden path
- taken someone down the garden path
- takes someone down the garden path
- taking someone down the garden path
- leading someone down the garden path
Words that rhyme with path
Questions about path
- What does path mean?
- Path means a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
- What is path in Hindi?
- Path in Hindi is पथ (path), पगडंडी (pagḍaṇḍī), मार्ग (mārg). See Path meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is path?
- Path can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce path?
- Path is pronounced /pɑːθ/.
- What is the plural of path?
- The plural of path is paths.
Words near path in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: path (page history and authors); ಗತಿ (Kannada) (page history and authors); دروازہ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); માર્ગ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଅୟନ (Odia) (page history and authors); আলি (Assamese) (page history and authors); मार्ग (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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