Definition of "pavilion"

An ornate tent.  examples

A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.  examples

A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.  examples

(cricket) The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.  examples

A detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex.  examples

The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet.  examples

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

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

(military) A flag, ensign, or banner.

1. A flag or ensign carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast.  examples

(heraldry) An ornate tent, used either as a charge or bearing, or surrounding a shield as or atop the mantling.  examples

A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.  quotations  examples

(transitive) To furnish with a pavilion.  examples

(transitive) To put inside a pavilion.  examples

(transitive, figuratively) To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour").  examples