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pavilion
/pəˈvɪljən/
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What does pavilion mean?
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.
More meanings (14)
noun
- 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 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
- To furnish with a pavilion.
- To put inside a pavilion.
- (figuratively) To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour, And girded with praise").
proper noun
- A community and Indian reserve in Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.
- A town and census-designated place therein, in Genesee County, New York, United States.
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IPA pronunciation
/pəˈvɪljən/
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And now the mild autumn sun got lower, and in front of the pavilion the following incident had taken place.
They all sat down in the little pavilion to watch an autumn sunset of deep red fire and pallid gold.
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I sometimes heard murmurs in the crowd outside the pavilion that Mrs. Harling would soon have her hands full with that girl.
Cosette on perceiving that her father was ill, had deserted the pavilion and again taken a fancy to the little lodging and the back courtyard.
So now she stood by the board in the pavilion with her head drooping humbly, yet smiling to herself and heedful of whatso might betide.