hard surface

1. 1.

   cover with asphalt or a similar surface

   “hard-surface roads”

   Broaderpave

Questions about hard surface

What does hard surface mean?

hard surface means "cover with asphalt or a similar surface".

Is hard surface a common word?

hard surface is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.