PAVING MATERIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paving material mean? 

• PAVING MATERIAL (noun)
  The noun PAVING MATERIAL has 1 sense:

1. material used to pave an area

  Familiarity information: PAVING MATERIAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAVING MATERIAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Material used to pave an area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

pavement; paving; paving material

Hypernyms ("paving material" is a kind of...):

artefact; artifact (a man-made object taken as a whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "paving material"):

asphalt (mixed asphalt and crushed gravel or sand; used especially for paving but also for roofing)

concrete (a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water)

blacktop; blacktopping (a black bituminous material used for paving roads or other areas; usually spread over crushed rock)

macadam (broken stone used in macadamized roadways)

tarmac; tarmacadam (a paving material of tar and broken stone; mixed in a factory and shaped during paving)