| pavilion | |
| 1. n. An ornate tent. | |
| 2. n. A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place. | |
| 3. n. A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc. | |
| 4. n. (cricket) The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals. | |
| 5. n. A detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex. | |
| 6. n. The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet. | |
| 7. n. (anatomy) The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle. | |
| 8. n. (anatomy) The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube. | |
| 9. n. (military) A flag, ensign, or banner. | |
| 10. n. A flag or ensign carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast. | |
| 11. n. (heraldry) A tent used as a bearing. | |
| 12. n. A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky. | |
| 13. v. To furnish with a pavilion. | |
| 14. v. To put inside a pavilion. | |
| 15. v. (transitive, figuratively) To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour"). | |
