pavilion

[ puh-vil-yuh n ]

/ pəˈvɪl yən /

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noun

a light, usually open building used for shelter, concerts, exhibits, etc., as in a park or fair.

any of a number of separate or attached buildings forming a hospital or the like.

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.

a tent, especially a large and elaborate one.

a small, ornamental building in a garden.

Also called base. Jewelry. the part of a cut gem below the girdle.

verb (used with object)

to shelter in or as if in a pavilion.

to furnish with pavilions.

Origin of pavilion

1250–1300; Middle English pavilon < Old French paveillon < Latin pāpiliōn- (stem of pāpiliō) butterfly

OTHER WORDS FROM pavilion

un·pa·vil·ioned, adjective

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Example sentences from the Web for pavilion

“Doctor Zhivago could not be handed out at the American pavilion, but the CIA had an ally nearby,” Finn and Couvée write.

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The piece suggests that Warhol was ultimately OK—and, quite possibly, pleased—with how the Pavilion affair went down.

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Art in its informative mode, in a video installation by Ali Kazma, in the Turkish pavilion of this year's Venice biennale.

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This is a moment from "The Imitation of Life", Mathias Poledna's projection in the Austrian pavilion of the Biennale gardens.

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He said they will seek an order that requires the pavilion to be "open to all on an equal basis."

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At this point he left the pavilion and hailed his fellow rambler by night in a cautious undertone.

Mike |P. G. Wodehouse
Is there any one about to steal the staircase of the Louvre, or the clock from the pavilion of the Tuileries?

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He had185 an air of wandering aimlessly so that his arrival at the pavilion seemed quite a matter of chance.

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Stand or take a seat by the railing of the garden opposite the Pavilion Sully.

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It was the lady of the pavilion underneath the pines, the lady of the evening light and of the midnight storm.

The Black Douglas |S. R. Crockett

British Dictionary definitions for pavilion

pavilion

/ (pəˈvɪljən) /

noun

British a building at a sports ground, esp a cricket pitch, in which players change

a summerhouse or other decorative shelter

a building or temporary structure, esp one that is open and ornamental, for housing exhibitions

a large ornate tent, esp one with a peaked top, as used by medieval armies

one of a set of buildings that together form a hospital or other large institution

one of four main facets on a brilliant-cut stone between the girdle and the culet

verb (tr) literary

to place or set in or as if in a pavilion pavilioned in splendour

to provide with a pavilion or pavilions

Word Origin for pavilion

C13: from Old French pavillon canopied structure, from Latin pāpiliō butterfly, tent

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