pavilion
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 8
Definition of pavilion
17 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- An ornate tent.
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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.
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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.”
- 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.
- An ornate tent, used either as a charge or bearing, or surrounding a shield as or atop the mantling.
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A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
“For after the rain when with never a stain, / The pavilion of heaven is bare, […]”
verb
- (transitive)To furnish with a pavilion.
- (transitive)To put inside a pavilion.
- (figuratively, transitive)To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour, And girded with praise").
name
- 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.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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.
Words you can make from pavilion
91 playable · top: PAVIN (10 pts)
Best play pavin 10 points6-letter words
1 word5-letter words
14 words4-letter words
32 words- NOVA 7 pts
- OVAL 7 pts
- VAIL 7 pts
- VAIN 7 pts
- VIAL 7 pts
- VINA 7 pts
- VINO 7 pts
- VIOL 7 pts
- LIPA 6 pts
- LIPO 6 pts
- NIPA 6 pts
- OPAL 6 pts
- PAIL 6 pts
- PAIN 6 pts
- PALI 6 pts
- PIAL 6 pts
- PIAN 6 pts
- PILI 6 pts
- PINA 6 pts
- PION 6 pts
- PLAN 6 pts
- ANIL 4 pts
- ILIA 4 pts
- INIA 4 pts
- LAIN 4 pts
- LINO 4 pts
- LION 4 pts
- LOAN 4 pts
- LOIN 4 pts
- NAIL 4 pts
- NAOI 4 pts
- NOIL 4 pts
3-letter words
28 words2-letter words
15 wordsHooks
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