PAVILION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pavilion mean? 

• PAVILION (noun)
  The noun PAVILION has 1 sense:

1. large and often sumptuous tent

  Familiarity information: PAVILION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAVILION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large and often sumptuous tent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

marquee; pavilion

Hypernyms ("pavilion" is a kind of...):

collapsible shelter; tent (a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs))

 Context examples 

“Oliver, Oliver, I know you over-well,” said Sir Nigel, shaking his head, and the two old soldiers rode off together to their pavilion.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He resolved that he would not be so spoiled, and he went on to the dancing pavilion.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Certain agents I found to have the power to shake and pluck back that fleshly vestment, even as a wind might toss the curtains of a pavilion.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She was flying her tricolour out there within sight of my pavilion windows.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Or, again, one might seize the other round the middle, pluck him off his horse and bear him to the pavilion, there to hold him to ransom.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The young fellow allowed himself to be led away toward the pavilion, and the gang followed after him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

On and on they pushed past the endless lines of tents, amid the dense swarms of horsemen and of footmen, until the huge royal pavilion stretched in front of them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Once, on the dancing-floor, he saw Lizzie Connolly go by in the arms of a young workingman; and, later, when he made the round of the pavilion, he came upon her sitting by a refreshment table.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Sir Thomas Wake was beaten to the ground with a battle-axe—that being the weapon which he had selected—and had to be carried to his pavilion.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He spurred back to the pavilion, and was out in a few instants with another helmet.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)