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 →

2) A light building or large tent used at fairs, shows and exhibitions. tree →

3) A decorative building in a park or garden for shelter, like a summerhouse. tree →

4) One of several buildings that make up a hospital or exhibition. tree →

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 →
• He was out and walked back to the pavilion. tree →
• Each country had its own pavilion at the World Fair. tree →
• We sheltered from the rain in the park pavilion. tree →
• The Royal Pavilion in Brighton looks like an Indian palace. tree →
• The flower show had a huge pavilion full of roses. tree →
• Again he thought, "That is surely my hunting-pavilion," and so he went up to it. tree →

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.
• He made darkness His hiding-place, His pavilion round about Him; darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
• Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the crashings of His pavilion?

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pavilion» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.