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pavilion

UK/pəˈvɪljən/US/pəˈvɪljən/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,451 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: pavilions

A pavilion is a light building at the edge of a sports field. The cricket pavilion, back to the pavilion, a park pavilion.

In cricket, returning to the pavilion means being out, and the word carries a whole world of village greens with it. The name comes from the Latin for a butterfly, because a tent with its sides spread looked like one.

Hemant banswal · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of pavilion

  1. 1nounpavilionA light building at the edge of a sports field.B2+

    “At lunch, the cricketers walked back to the pavilion for sandwiches and tea.”

pavilion is a building.

Where it comes from

Latin papilio means a butterfly and later a tent, from the resemblance of a spread tent to open wings.

  1. Latin

    pāpiliōnem

  2. Anglo-Norman

    pavilloun

  3. Middle English

    pavilloun

  4. English, today

    pavilion

Built from

  • pāpiliō · Latin — butterfly, moth

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. a doublet of papilio and papillon. Cognate to French pavillon (“pavilion”) and papillon (“butterfly”), and similar terms in other Romance languages.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Buildings & Architecture

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pavilion in the wild

  • In architecture, pavilion has several meanings: It may be a subsidiary building that is either positioned separately or as an attachment to a main building.

    Pavilion

  • The pavilion was named after Jay Pritzker, whose family is known for owning Hyatt Hotels.

    Jay Pritzker Pavilion

  • Performers ranging from mainstream rock bands to classical musicians and opera singers have appeared at the pavilion, which even hosts physical fitness activities such as yoga.

    Jay Pritzker Pavilion

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.