pavilion

  1. Noun.  an ornate tent.
  2. Noun.  a light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.
  3. Noun.  a structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.
  4. Noun.  (cricket) the building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.
  5. Noun.  the lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone.
  6. Noun.  the cartiliginous part of the outer ear.
  7. Verb.  (transitive) to furnish with a pavilion.
  8. Verb.  (transitive) to put inside a pavilion.
  9. Verb.  (transitive, figuratively) to enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour").

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