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pavé

UK/ˈpæveɪ/US/pɑˈveɪ/

pavé noun: a paved surface, a pavement (now only in French contexts).

Noun

pavé (plural pavés)

  1. A paved surface, a pavement (now only in French contexts).
  2. A setting of gemstones such that no metal is visible, especially when the stones are set very close together.
    • And most recently, Lauren Sánchez Bezos flaunted a massive oval diamond set in a thin pavé band at her wedding in June.2025 August 12, Sadiba Hasan, “Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodríguez Are Engaged. All Eyes Are on the Ring.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
  3. Any of various food items having a rectangular shape.

Verb

pavé (third-person singular simple present pavés, present participle pavéing, simple past and past participle pavéed or pavéd)

  1. To arrange gemstones in jewellery so that no metal is visible, especially when the stones are set very close together.

Forms of pavé

Noun
pluralpavés
Verb
third-person singular presentpavés
present participlepavéing
past participlepavéed
pastpavéed
past participlepavéd
pastpavéd

Origin of pavé

Borrowed from Middle French pavé (“pavement”).

Words formed from pavé

Phrases with pavé

Questions about pavé

What does pavé mean?
Pavé means a paved surface, a pavement (now only in French contexts).
What part of speech is pavé?
Pavé can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce pavé?
Pavé is pronounced /ˈpæveɪ/ (UK).
What is the plural of pavé?
The plural of pavé is pavés.

Words near pavé in the dictionary

  1. pavonne
  2. pavonnes
  3. pavons
  4. pavs
  5. Pavuk
  6. pavé
  7. pavéd
  8. pavéed
  9. pavéing
  10. pavés
  11. paw

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pavé (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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