pavilion
SubstantivVerbin Dialogen belegt
- //pəˈvɪljən//
An ornate tent.
Substantiv
- 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.
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
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. 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.
For after the rain when with never a stain, / The pavilion of heaven is bare, […]
Herkunft
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.
Verb
- 1
To furnish with a pavilion.
- 2
To put inside a pavilion.
- 3
übertragenTo enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour, And girded with praise").
Formen
- Plural
- pavilions
- Präteritum
- pavilioned
- Partizip II
- pavilioned
- Partizip I
- pavilioning
- 3. Person Singular
- pavilions