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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unpaved
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
road
▪ And the cities of the Third World often have unpaved roads.
▪ But visitors to the hills outside town are greeted by unpaved roads and signs warning trespassers to keep out.
▪ With one hand she cleared away from under her the sharp stones of the unpaved road.
street
▪ At this time of year the unpaved streets were practically quagmires.
▪ Half a bungalow on an unpaved street.
▪ Conditions elsewhere, with dung-hills in the middle of unpaved streets, were little better.
▪ It took firefighters a half- hour to find their way in the darkness to the Aburtos' unmarked, unpaved street.
▪ It was a very poor neighborhood, old houses, unpaved streets.
▪ When I think of that empty marketplace, and those unpaved streets, my heart sinks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the cities of the Third World often have unpaved roads.
▪ At this time of year the unpaved streets were practically quagmires.
▪ He followed Creed's directions, leaving the road for an unpaved track that seemed to lead towards the ocean.
▪ It took firefighters a half- hour to find their way in the darkness to the Aburtos' unmarked, unpaved street.
▪ It was a very poor neighborhood, old houses, unpaved streets.
▪ It was late, and the country roads were not only unpaved but dark.
▪ Shortly afterwards Cinzia turned off along an unpaved minor road.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unpaved

Unpaved \Un*paved"\, a.

  1. Not paved; not furnished with a pavement.
    --Hakewill.

  2. Castrated. [Obs.] ``Unpaved eunuch.''
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unpaved

1530s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of pave (v.).

Wiktionary
unpaved

a. (context of a road or path English) Not having a hard, impervious surface; not paved

WordNet
unpaved

adj. not having a hard surface [ant: paved]

Usage examples of "unpaved".

The unpaved Mystery Lane will run southbound, and nobody in authority has convincingly explained its purpose.

From Bonar Bridge we drive along Strath Carron for ten miles on an unpaved single-track road through the woods.

At Erivan, the largest city in Russian Armenia, the traveller will find fairly good accommodation, but the place is dull enough, whether in the Persian quarter, where crooked lanes are lined with high walls, that mask the dwellings within like the defences of a fortress, or in the broad streets and unpaved quarter laid out by the Russians since their occupation of the province in 1829, even though enlivened by a boulevard and gardens fair to look upon.

It was just under four kilometers from the main part of the Center, a nice easy twenty-minute lope down a narrow unpaved road bordered on both sides by sprawling red-barked madrone trees and a low scrub of manzanita.

Instead, he quickly turned off the blacktopped road onto a narrow, unpaved lane angling toward the bay's shoreline.

Heads now covered by leather skins to hold off the downpour, we guided Twixt in the line of voyagers slopping along the unpaved road of Causee de Saint-Lazare.

The young man looked at the group of journalists leaving the cuartel , gave the soldiers a salute and crossed the unpaved square to the vans.

An old wooden rowboat and crab pots were in a yard scattered with oyster shells, and brown hydrangea lined a fence where there was a curious row of white-painted cubbyholes facing the unpaved street.

The residential streets were unpaved, and the residences that fronted them were ugly cubelike apartment buildings interspersed with subdivided farmhouses and auto courts held over from the not too distant time when this was open country.

Everywhere were people in dashikis, long enough to brush the unpaved shoulder but still unbesmirched.

They reached the same unpaved road that they had taken to the ditches earlier.

On the less-traveled and unpaved section of the south road beyond the city, a company of lancers would chum up the road enough to stop any wagon, and after the first two or three companies traveled it, the later riders would have great difficulty traveling with any speed, and the lower-lying sections would become, if not impassable, places where men and mounts bunched into groups making their way through slowly.

Mama's voice broke our silence, and as she spoke a dust devil appeared far in the distance on the unpaved Prince of Peace Citrus Highway, the road our store was on.

Say ten per cent was lost on board to freezer burn, ten per cent spoiled on shore, ten per cent was split between the port manager and the fleet director, ten per cent was spilled on unpaved roads to villages where there might or might not be a working refrigerator to save the last well-travelled fillets.

Here in Immokalee, on an unpaved side street, was the worst location possible for a guesthouse.