pavilion

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
17
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/pəˈvɪljən/

Definition of pavilion

17 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. An ornate tent.
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noun

  1. An ornate tent.
  2. A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.
  3. A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.
  4. The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.
    “Only one player has hit a six over the Lord's pavillion.”
  5. A detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex.
  6. The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet.
  7. The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.
  8. The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
  9. A flag, ensign, or banner.
  10. A flag, ensign, or banner.
  11. An ornate tent, used either as a charge or bearing, or surrounding a shield as or atop the mantling.
  12. A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
    “For after the rain when with never a stain, / The pavilion of heaven is bare, […]”

verb

  1. (transitive)To furnish with a pavilion.
  2. (transitive)To put inside a pavilion.
  3. (figuratively, transitive)To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour, And girded with praise").

name

  1. A community and Indian reserve in Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.
  2. A town and census-designated place therein, in Genesee County, New York, United States.

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Etymology

From Middle English pavilloun, from Anglo-Norman pavilloun, from Latin pāpiliōnem, form of pāpiliō (“butterfly, moth”) (due to resemblance of tent to a butterfly’s wings), of unknown origin. Doublet of papilio and papillon. Cognate to French pavillon (“pavilion”) and papillon (“butterfly”), and similar terms in other Romance languages.

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