Usually means: Black, sticky petroleum-based binder material.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. asphalt: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. asphalt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. asphalt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. asphalt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. asphalt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Asphalt, asphalt: Wordnik
  7. asphalt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. asphalt: Wiktionary
  9. asphalt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. asphalt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. asphalt: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. asphalt: Dictionary.com
  13. asphalt: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. asphalt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Asphalt (disambiguation), Asphalt (novel), Asphalt (series), Asphalt, The Asphalt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Asphalt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. asphalt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. asphalt: Rhymezone
  19. asphalt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. asphalt: Free Dictionary
  21. asphalt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. asphalt: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. asphalt: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. Asphalt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  25. asphalt: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. asphalt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. asphalt: Medical dictionary
  2. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. asphalt: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. asphalt: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Asphalt: Building pathology glossary
  2. Roofing Terms (No longer online)
  3. asphalt: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  4. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See asphalted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A sticky, black to brown and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid, composed almost entirely of bitumen with small mineral particles, that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits.
verb:  (transitive) To pave with asphalt.
noun:  Ellipsis of asphalt concrete, a hard ground covering used for roads and walkways. [A material often used for road surfacing, composed of a hard, granular material such as crushed stone combined with asphalt as a binder. (Often clipped elliptically as asphalt.)]

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