pavilion

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An ornate tent.
  2. A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.
  3. A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.
  4. The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.
    — Only one player has hit a six over the Lord's pavillion.
  5. A detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex.
  6. The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet.
  7. The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.
  8. The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
  9. A flag, ensign, or banner.
  10. A flag, ensign, or banner.; A flag or ensign carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast.
  11. An ornate tent, used either as a charge or bearing, or surrounding a shield as or atop the mantling.
  12. A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
    — For after the rain when with never a stain, / The pavilion of heaven is bare, […]
动词 v.
  1. To furnish with a pavilion. transitive
  2. To put inside a pavilion. transitive
  3. To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour, And girded with praise"). figuratively,transitive

词形变化

pavilions plural pavilions present,singular,third-person pavilioning participle,present pavilioned participle,past pavilioned past

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词源

词源 1
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. Doublet of papilio and papillon.
Cognate to French pavillon (“pavilion”) and papillon (“butterfly”), and similar terms in other Romance languages.
词源 2
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. Doublet of papilio and papillon.
Cognate to French pavillon (“pavilion”) and papillon (“butterfly”), and similar terms in other Romance languages.
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