pavilion

Plural: pavilions

Noun

• large and often sumptuous tent
• 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.
• 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.
• The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.
• The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
• A flag, ensign, or banner.
• A flag, ensign, or banner.
• A flag or ensign carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast.
• 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

Verb Forms: pavilioned, pavilioning, pavilions

• To cover or shelter with a large tent or temporary structure.
• To furnish with a pavilion.
• To put inside a pavilion.
• To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour, And girded with praise").

Examples

• He hoped to PAVILION his opponent’s best scoring squares, blocking any big plays.
• Only one player has hit a six over the Lord's pavillion.

Synonyms

marquee, auricle, pinna

Related Words

papillon

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