pavilion

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Singular
pavilion

Plural
pavilions

pavilion (plural pavilions)

  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
  5. the lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone
  6. the cartiliginous part of the outer ear

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Infinitive
to pavilion

Third person singular
pavilions

Simple past
pavilioned

Past participle
pavilioned

Present participle
pavilioning

to pavilion (third-person singular simple present pavilions, present participle pavilioning, simple past and past participle pavilioned)

  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")

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