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pavilion - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Noun

pavilion (plural pavilions)

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  • 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.
  • (cricket) 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.
  • (anatomy) The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.
  • (anatomy) The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
  • (military) A flag, ensign, or banner.
    • A flag or ensign carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast.
  • (heraldry) 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.
    • ✤ For after the rain when with never a stain,/The pavilion of heaven is bare, […]1

Verb

pavilion (third-person singular simple present pavilions, present participle pavilioning, simple past and past participle pavilioned)

  • (transitive) To furnish with a pavilion.
  • (transitive) To put inside a pavilion.
  • (transitive, figuratively) To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant’s hymn line “pavilioned in splendour, And girded with praise”).

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.2 Doublet of papilio and papillon.

Cognate to French pavillon (“pavilion”) and papillon (“butterfly”), and similar terms in other Romance languages.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /pəˈvɪljən/
  • Audio (US): 🔊
  • Audio (Australian): 🔊
  • Rhymes: -ɪljən

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Footnotes

  1. 1819 or 1820 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Cloud”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza 6, page 200: ↩

  2. Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “pavilion”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. ↩

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