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pavior

pavior noun: a person who lays paving slabs.

Noun

pavior (plural paviors)

  1. A person who lays paving slabs.
    • [T]he Contract with the Pipe-water Pavior was, as he recollects, to keep the Pavement in Repair for ſix Weeks; […]1778 April 3, “Appendix. Report from the Committee on the State of the Pavements, &c. in the Streets of Dublin”, in The Journals of the House of Commons, of the Kingdom of Ireland, […], volume XX...
    • A "mooner," fond of staring into shop windows, or watching the labourers pulling up the pavement to inspect the gas-pipes, or listening stolidly to the dull "pech" of the paviour's rammer on the flags.1853, Charles Dickens, Household Words, volume 6, page 387
  2. A brick or slab used for paving.
  3. (obsolete) A machine that is used to tamp down paving slabs.

pavior meaning in Tamil

pavior in Tamil

பாவுநன்

Forms of pavior

pluralpaviors
alternative formpaviour

Origin of pavior

From Anglo-Norman paviour, from pavier (“to pave”).

Questions about pavior

What does pavior mean?
Pavior means a person who lays paving slabs.
What is pavior in Tamil?
Pavior in Tamil is பாவுநன். See Pavior meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pavior?
Pavior is a noun.
What is the plural of pavior?
The plural of pavior is paviors.

Words near pavior in the dictionary

  1. paving tiles
  2. pavings
  3. pavingstone
  4. pavingstones
  5. pavins
  6. pavior
  7. paviors
  8. Paviotso
  9. paviour
  10. paviours
  11. pavis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pavior (page history and authors); pavior (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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