path

/pæθ/ n [C]

Definition

› a way or track made by or for people walking on the ground, or a line along which something moves: a bike path The forest fire burned everything in its path. › A path is also a set of actions that lead to a result or goal: Ashe pioneered the path of black tennis players to the top of the game. › physics The path of an electron is the space it travels in around the center of an atom.

(Definition of path n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)