Word Meanings - PATH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A trodden way; a footway. The dewy paths of meadows we will tread. Dryden. 2. A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence.

Additional info about word: PATH

1. A trodden way; a footway. The dewy paths of meadows we will tread. Dryden. 2. A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. Also used figuratively, of a course of life or action. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth. Ps. xxv. 10. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Gray.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PATH)

• Approach
• Access
• avenue
• entrance
• adit
• vestibule
• arrival
• approximation
• advent
• Bearing
• admission
• appropinquation
• admittance
• mode
• path
• way
• advance
• similarity
• Orbit
• Revolution
• circuit
• sphere
• Road
• Public way
• highway
• route
• thoroughfare
• course
• pathway
• Route
• Way
• passage
• march
• track
• direction

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PATH)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease

Related words: (words related to PATH)

• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• MARCHER
  One who marches.
• PUBLICLY
  1. With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made. 2. In the name of the community. Addison.
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• ADVENTIST
  One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• CIRCUITOUS
  Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n. Syn. -- Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine.
• ADVENTIVE
  Adventitious. Gray. (more info) 1. Accidental.
• PUBLICNESS
  1. The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale. 2. The quality or state of belonging to the community; as, the publicness of property. Boyle.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• COURSED
  1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
• ORBITARY
  Situated around the orbit; as, the orbitary feathers of a bird.
• PUBLICAN
  A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation. As Jesus at meat . . . many publicans
• ADVENTURESS
  A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
• APPROXIMATION
  1. The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating. The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature.
• TRACKWALKER
  A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• ADVENTUROUSNESS
  The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• NOMARCH
  The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.
• PREORBITAL
  a. Situated in front or the orbit.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• NONARRIVAL
  Failure to arrive.
• RECOURSEFUL
  Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton.
• UNSPHERE
  To remove, as a planet, from its sphere or orb. Shak.
• AEROSPHERE
  The atmosphere.
• POLEMARCH
  In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer.
• COSMOSPHERE
  An apparattus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.