Definition of "pavilion" in English

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. (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.

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. (anatomy) The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.

8. (anatomy) The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.

9. (military) A flag, ensign, or banner.

10. (heraldry) An 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.

verb

1. (transitive) To furnish with a pavilion.

2. (transitive) To put inside a pavilion.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour, And girded with praise").