Definitions for pavilion

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pavilion pa·vil·ion

Spelling: [puh-vil-yuh n]

IPA: /pəˈvɪl yən/

Pavilion is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 197 anagrams from letters in pavilion (aiilnopv).

Definitions for pavilion

noun

1. a light, usually open building used for shelter, concerts, exhibits, etc., as in a park or fair.
2. any of a number of separate or attached buildings forming a hospital or the like.
3. Architecture. a projecting element of a façade, used especially at the center or at each end and usually treated so as to suggest a tower.
4. a tent, especially a large and elaborate one.
5. a small, ornamental building in a garden.
6. Also called base. Jewelry. the part of a cut gem below the girdle.

verb (used with object)

1. to shelter in or as if in a pavilion.
2. to furnish with pavilions.

Origin of pavilion

1250-1300; Middle English pavilon Old French paveillon Latin pāpiliōn- (stem of pāpiliō) butterfly

Examples for pavilion

In the centre of the camp rose the pavilion of the queen—a palace in itself.

The piece suggests that Warhol was ultimately OK—and, quite possibly, pleased—with how the pavilion affair went down.

That was the spot, the pavilion was there at the end of a path.

Shall we look over into the Pool from the pavilion, or go down by the steps?

“Doctor Zhivago could not be handed out at the American pavilion, but the CIA had an ally nearby,” Finn and Couvée write.

He said they will seek an order that requires the pavilion to be "open to all on an equal basis."

Before the city a pavilion had been erected in which I drank the stirrup-cup.

Art in its informative mode, in a video installation by Ali Kazma, in the Turkish pavilion of this year's Venice biennale.

Vivian was now invited to the pavilion, where refreshments were prepared.

This is a moment from "The Imitation of Life", Mathias Poledna's projection in the Austrian pavilion of the Biennale gardens.