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noun

path n. (pl. paths)

A trodden way; a footway. "The dewy paths of meadows we will tread."

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." "The paths of glory lead but to the grave."

verb

Path v. t. (past & past part. pathed; pres. part. pathing) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one). (R.) "Pathing young Henry's unadvised ways."

Path v. i. To walk or go. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Path'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Path" Quotes from Famous Books

... for an hour, walking to Chinik Creek over the tundra, from which the snow has almost disappeared, and returned by the hill-top path. The tundra was beautiful with mosses, birds were singing, and the rushing and roaring of the creek waters fairly made my head swim, they were such unusual sounds. The water was cutting a channel in the sands where it ...

— A Woman who went to Alaska • May Kellogg Sullivan

... to your profession. You have an institution which now holds and, if true to yourselves, will continue to hold a high position in the estimation of this appreciative community. If I have stepped aside from Art to tread what seems another path, there is a good precedent for it in the lives of artists. Science and Art are not opposed. Leonardo da Vinci could find congenial relaxation in scientific researches and invention, and our own Fulton was a painter whose scientific studies resulted in steam navigation. It may not be generally ...

— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume II • Samuel F. B. Morse

... has fallen to one who has the enlargement to comprehend, the spirit to undertake, and the eloquence to support so great a measure of hazardous benevolence. His spirit is not owing to his ignorance of the state of men and things: he well knows what snares are spread about his path, from personal animosity, from court intrigues, and possibly from popular delusion. But he has put to hazard his ease, his security, his interest, his power, even his darling popularity, for the benefit of a people ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... roofs, while the flames shot up to an immense height with the hissing and soughing of a hurricane. Ah! Petiots, it was a fair image of pandemonium. The people seemed an army of fiends, spreading ruin and desolation in their path. The work-oxen were killed, and a few among us, with the hope of a speedy return to Acadia, threw our silverware into the wells. Oh, the ruin, the ruin, ...

— Acadian Reminiscences - The True Story of Evangeline • Felix Voorhies

... the mistress and ruler of the little mansion, inviting the company thither, and engaging in every conceivable frolic of town pleasure. Whilst her mother, acting as the young lady's protectress and elder sister, pursued her own path, which was quite ...

— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray

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