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plural of path
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1
the direction along which something or someone moves
- try to stay out of the path of the golf balls while playing
- I tripped over a rock directly in my path
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2
a rough course or way formed by or as if by repeated footsteps
- a path worn through the library lawn by too many people walking over it
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3
an established course for traveling from one place to another
- the path along which ancient traders traveled from Europe to China was known as the Silk Road
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- arteries,
- boulevards,
- bypasses,
- drives,
- expressways,
- freeways,
- high roads,
- highways,
- passageways,
- passes,
- pike
- (or pikes),
- roads,
- roadways,
- routeways
- [chiefly British],
- rows,
- streets,
- thoroughfares,
- turnpikes
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