pavilion
IPA: pʌvˈɪɫjʌn
noun
- An ornate tent.
- A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.
- A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.
- (cricket) The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.
- A detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex.
- The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet.
- (anatomy) The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.
- (anatomy) The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
- (military) A flag, ensign, or banner.
- A flag or ensign carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast.
- (heraldry) An ornate tent, used either as a charge or bearing, or surrounding a shield as or atop the mantling.
- A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
verb
- (transitive) To furnish with a pavilion.
- (transitive) To put inside a pavilion.
- (transitive, figuratively) To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour").
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Examples of "pavilion" in Sentences
- The main attraction was the pavilion.
- The link to the pavilion is inappropriate.
- The pavilion represents the Roman Pantheon.
- The pavilion is located in zone A of the Expo.
- The exit is on the opposite side of the pavilion.
- The motto was placed on the dome of the pavilion.
- This Pavilion is the gateway to the realm of the dead.
- In 1938 the entrance was widened, and the regal pavilion constructed.
- The chair was shown off perfectly in the environment of the Pavilion.
- Of these, the Pavilion of the Rain of Flowers is one of the most important.
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