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# pavilion

«pavilion» in Mova's school dictionary: **A building beside a sports field, especially a cricket…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a pavilion, pavilions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A building beside a sports field, especially a cricket ground, where players change and rest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pavilion/#m1)

2) A light building or large tent used at fairs, shows and exhibitions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pavilion/#m2)

3) A decorative building in a park or garden for shelter, like a summerhouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pavilion/#m3)

4) One of several buildings that make up a hospital or exhibition. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pavilion/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In sport (UK, Australia, NZ, Ireland), the cricket pavilion is where players change and have tea; a batter who is out walks back "to the pavilion". At fairs and world exhibitions, each country may have a pavilion. In parks, a bandstand or tea pavilion.

### examples

- The cricketers had tea in the pavilion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pavilion/#x1)
- He was out and walked back to the pavilion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pavilion/#x2)
- Each country had its own pavilion at the World Fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pavilion/#x3)
- We sheltered from the rain in the park pavilion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pavilion/#x4)
- The Royal Pavilion in Brighton looks like an Indian palace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pavilion/#x5)
- The flower show had a huge pavilion full of roses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pavilion/#x6)
- Again he thought, "That is surely my hunting-pavilion," and so he went up to it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pavilion/#x7)

### note

Countable: a pavilion, pavilions. Spelling: one l, then "-ion" after "pavil-". Pronounced "puh-VIL-yun".

### In the corpora

- [And He made darkness pavilions round about Him, gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.671/)
- [He made darkness His hiding-place, His pavilion round about Him; darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.222/)
- [Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the crashings of His pavilion?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.969/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pavilion» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pavilion/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.