pavilion
Meanings
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
- 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").
Origin / 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 papillon.
Cognate to French pavillon (“pavilion”) and papillon (“butterfly”), and similar terms in other Romance languages.
Scrabble Score: 13
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Words With Friends Score: 17
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