path: Meaning and Definition of

path

1. a way beaten, formed, or trodden by the feet of persons or animals.
2. a narrow walk or way: a path through a garden; a bicycle path.
3. a route, course, or track along which something moves: the path of a hurricane.
4. a course of action, conduct, or procedure: the path of righteousness.
5. a continuous curve that connects two or more points.
6. the sequence of steps that a computer follows in carrying out a routine, as in storing and retrieving a file at a specific location.
7. to encounter or meet unexpectedly: Tragedy crossed our path again.

path-

1. var. ofbefore a vowel: pathosis.

-path

1. a combining form occurring in personal nouns corresponding to abstract nouns ending inwith the general sense “one practicing such a treatment” (osteopath) or “one suffering from such an ailment” (&hasp;psychopath).

path.

1. pathological.
2. pathology.