pavilion

Meaning

Noun

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. The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.
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. The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.
8. The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
9. A flag, ensign, or banner.
10. A flag, ensign, or banner.
11. An ornate tent, used either as a charge or bearing, or surrounding a shield as or atop the mantling.
12. A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.

Verb

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

Synonyms

kiosk

booth

hall

arbor

rest house

gazebo

tent

⛺

marquee

lobby

arbour

chamber

lounge

shed

stall

summerhouse

rest area

arbor

arbour

marque

bandstand

open

outbuilding

outhouse

pergola

pinna

porch

wayside shelter

anricle

straight

pandal

awning

terrace

villa

two-storeyed pavilion

auricle

council chamber

film studio

external ear

curtain

hunting lodge

courtyard

canopy

small temple

Translations

pavillon

Pavillon

padiglione

pabellón

pavilhão

paviljoen

tuinhuis

koepel

περίπτερο

κιόσκι

zomerhuisje

tuinhuisje

pavelló

⛺

جناح

🪽

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pəˈvɪljən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: pavilloun

Cognate with French: pavillon

In summary

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