Pavilion

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An ornate tent.
  • n. A light, sometimes ornamental roofed structure, used for amusement or shelter, as at parks or fairs: a picnic pavilion.
  • n. A usually temporary structure erected at a fair or show for use by an exhibitor: the French pavilion at the World's Fair.
  • n. A large structure housing sports or entertainment facilities; an arena.
  • n. A structure or another building connected to a larger building; an annex.
  • n. One of a group of related buildings forming a complex, as of a hospital.
  • n. The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gem, slanting outward from the culet to the girdle.
  • v. To cover or furnish with or as if with a pavilion.
  • v. To put in or as if in a pavilion.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. an ornate tent
  • n. a light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place
  • n. a structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc
  • n. the building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals
  • n. the lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone
  • n. the cartiliginous part of the outer ear
  • v. to furnish with a pavilion
  • v. to put inside a pavilion
  • v. to enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour")
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts.
  • n. A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile.
  • n. A flag, colors, ensign, or banner.
  • n. Same as Tent (Her.)
  • n. That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant.
  • n. The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
  • n. A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
  • v. To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A tent; a temporary movable habitation: particularly, a large tent raised on posts.
  • n. Hence A canopy; a covering.
  • n. In architecture: A building of small or moderate size, isolated, but properly in a relation of more or less dependence on a larger or principal building.
  • n. A part of a building of considerable size projecting from the main body, particularly in the middle or at an angle of a front.
  • n. In apiculture, the middle hive in a collateral system.
  • n. In heraldry, a tent used as a bearing: rare and represented in various ways, as a wall-tent, bell-tent, etc., at the choice of the artist.
  • n. A coif or wig.
  • n. In anatomy, the outer ear; the pinna or auricle of the ear.
  • n. In brilliant-cutting, the sloping surfaces between the girdle and culet, taken together; also, the whole lower or pyramidal part of the stone, taken from the girdle and including the culet or collet. See brilliant.
  • n. In music. See pavillon.
  • n. A flag or ensign; specifically, the flag carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast or on the flagstaff at the stern of a ship to indicate her nationality.
  • n. A gold coin struck by Edward the Black Prince for circulation in France: it weighed from 67 to 83 grains.
  • To furnish with pavilions or tents; fill with tents.
  • To shelter with or as with a tent.
  • n. In anatomy: The flaring extremity of a canal, as the external ear or the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. large and often sumptuous tent
  • Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Variant
    tent    brilliant   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    marquee    covering    canopy    tent    building    belly    auricle    pinna   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Brazilian    Jillian    Killian    Lilian    billion    brazilian    civilian    crocodilian    jillion    million   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    mansion    mosque    edifice    palace    tent    terrace    staircase    courtyard    spire    enclosure