pavilion

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An ornate tent.
2. n. A light, sometimes ornamental roofed structure, used for amusement or shelter, as at parks or fairs: a picnic pavilion.
3. n. A usually temporary structure erected at a fair or show for use by an exhibitor: the French pavilion at the World's Fair.
4. n. A large structure housing sports or entertainment facilities; an arena.
5. n. A structure or another building connected to a larger building; an annex.
6. n. One of a group of related buildings forming a complex, as of a hospital.
7. n. The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gem, slanting outward from the culet to the girdle.
8. v. To cover or furnish with or as if with a pavilion.
9. v. To put in or as if in a pavilion.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A tent; a temporary movable habitation: particularly, a large tent raised on posts.
2. n. Hence A canopy; a covering.
3. n. In architecture: A building of small or moderate size, isolated, but properly in a relation of more or less dependence on a larger or principal building. The term is also used arbitrarily, usually to designate a building, as a belvedere or other covered shelter, or even a large and fully appointed building in a park or at the seaside, appropriated to purposes of amusement.
4. n. A part of a building of considerable size projecting from the main body, particularly in the middle or at an angle of a front. It is usually carried up higher than the other parts of the building, and is often distinguished also by more elaborate decorative treatment.
5. n. In apiculture, the middle hive in a collateral system.
6. n. In heraldry, a tent used as a bearing: rare and represented in various ways, as a wall-tent, bell-tent, etc., at the choice of the artist.
7. n. A coif or wig.
8. n. In anatomy, the outer ear; the pinna or auricle of the ear.
9. n. In brilliant-cutting, the sloping surfaces between the girdle and culet, taken together; also, the whole lower or pyramidal part of the stone, taken from the girdle and including the culet or collet. See brilliant.
10. n. In music. See pavillon.
11. n. A flag or ensign; specifically, the flag carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast or on the flagstaff at the stern of a ship to indicate her nationality.
12. n. A gold coin struck by Edward the Black Prince for circulation in France: it weighed from 67 to 83 grains. The pavilion d'or (‘gold pavilion’) was a French gold coin struck by Philip VI. of Valois in the fourteenth century: it weighed about 79 grains. Also called ryal or royal.
13. To furnish with pavilions or tents; fill with tents.
14. To shelter with or as with a tent.
15. n. In anatomy: The flaring extremity of a canal, as the external ear or the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.

Wiktionary

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. the lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone
6. n. the cartiliginous part of the outer ear
7. v. transitive to furnish with a pavilion
8. v. transitive to put inside a pavilion
9. v. transitive, figuratively to enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour")

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts.
2. n. (Arch.) A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile.
3. n. (Mil.) A flag, colors, ensign, or banner.
4. n. (Her.) Same as Tent (Her.)
5. n. That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant.
6. n. (Anat.) The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
7. n. A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
8. v. To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. large and often sumptuous tent