pavilion

A small building with a roof in a park or similar place, providing shelter.

• We ate lunch in the pavilion.
• The park pavilion kept us dry during the shower.
• A band plays in the pavilion every Sunday.

Similar words: shelter, gazebo

Common phrases: park pavilion, picnic pavilion, garden pavilion

A building or temporary structure where things are displayed at a fair or exhibition.

• The pavilion displays modern art.
• Thousands visited the Japanese pavilion at the fair.
• Each country designed its own exhibition pavilion.

Similar words: exhibition hall

Common phrases: exhibition pavilion, national pavilion, trade pavilion

A separate or partly connected building within a larger hospital or other group of buildings.

• The patients moved into the new pavilion.
• A covered walkway links the pavilion to the hospital.
• The campus has three separate pavilions.

Common phrases: hospital pavilion, separate pavilion, medical pavilion

A large, beautifully decorated tent used for ceremonies, celebrations, or important guests.

• The king entered the pavilion.
• Servants raised a silk pavilion beside the river.
• Bright banners hung above the wedding pavilion.

Common phrases: royal pavilion, silk pavilion, pavilion tent

To provide a place with a decorative tent or roofed shelter.

• They planned to pavilion the garden.
• The owner pavilioned the grounds for summer guests.
• We could pavilion the lawn before the celebration.

Common phrases: pavilion the grounds, pavilion a garden

To put someone or something inside a decorative tent or roofed shelter.

• They chose to pavilion the royal guests.
• The soldiers were pavilioned beside the river.
• Servants pavilioned the visitors away from the sun.

Similar words: shelter, house

Common phrases: pavilion the guests, pavilion the soldiers

To surround someone or something completely, as if covering them with a large tent.

• Soft clouds pavilioned the mountain.
• The palace was pavilioned in mist.
• Golden light pavilioned the silent valley.

How to use it: pavilion someone/something in something (The evening sky pavilioned the hills in golden light.)

Similar words: envelop, surround

Common phrases: pavilion in light, pavilion in glory