pavilion

Meanings

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 or ensign carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast.
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.

1. To furnish with a pavilion.
2. To put inside a pavilion.
3. To 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.

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