pavilion

plural pavilions

1. An ornate tent.
2. A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.
3. A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.
4. ball gamesThe 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.

5. A detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex.
6. The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet.
7. anatomyThe cartilaginous part of the outer ear; auricle.

   Synonyms: auricle, pinna

8. anatomyThe fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
9. governmentA flag, ensign, or banner.
   1. governmentA flag or ensign carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast.
10. governmentAn ornate tent, used either as a charge or bearing, or surrounding a shield as or atop the mantling.
11. A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.

    For after the rain when with never a stain, / The pavilion of heaven is bare, […]

    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

present singular third person pavilions · participle present pavilioning · participle past pavilioned · past pavilioned

1. transitiveTo furnish with a pavilion.
2. transitiveTo put inside a pavilion.
3. figurativelytransitiveTo enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour, And girded with praise").

1. A community and Indian reserve in Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.
2. A town and census-designated place therein, in Genesee County, New York, United States.