pavilion
Americannoun
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a light, usually open building used for shelter, concerts, exhibits, etc., as in a park or fair.
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any of a number of separate or attached buildings forming a hospital or the like.
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Architecture. a projecting element of a façade, used especially at the center or at each end and usually treated so as to suggest a tower.
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a tent, especially a large and elaborate one.
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a small, ornamental building in a garden.
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Also called base. Jewelry. the part of a cut gem below the girdle.
verb (used with object)
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to shelter in or as if in a pavilion.
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to furnish with pavilions.
noun
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a building at a sports ground, esp a cricket pitch, in which players change
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a summerhouse or other decorative shelter
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a building or temporary structure, esp one that is open and ornamental, for housing exhibitions
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a large ornate tent, esp one with a peaked top, as used by medieval armies
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one of a set of buildings that together form a hospital or other large institution
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one of four main facets on a brilliant-cut stone between the girdle and the culet
verb
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to place or set in or as if in a pavilion
pavilioned in splendour
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to provide with a pavilion or pavilions
Other Word Forms
- unpavilioned adjective
Etymology
Origin of pavilion
1250–1300; Middle English pavilon < Old French paveillon < Latin pāpiliōn- (stem of pāpiliō ) butterfly
Example Sentences
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Employees who live in the tent cabins were moved into the Curry Village pavilion.
From Los Angeles Times
Those include a football/soccer stadium, a baseball field, basketball pavilion, exercise equipment and a 10-lane swimming pool.
From Los Angeles Times
After winning the toss and opting to field, Madsen's tournament all but ended in the fourth over after an awkward fall while fielding and he returned to the pavilion in obvious pain.
From Barron's
Stoschek’s foundation has supported dozens of exhibitions, including two of Germany’s pavilions at the Venice Biennale, and runs public museums in Düsseldorf and Berlin.
From Los Angeles Times
Qatar, the Emirates and Saudi Arabia all had pavilions along the main drag in town to tout the future of their countries.
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