Noun: pavilion
| Singular | pavilion |
| Plural | pavilions |
Sample Sentences
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Only one player has hit a six over the Lord's pavillion.
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For after the rain when with never a stain, / The pavilion of heaven is bare, […] [1819 or 1820 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Cloud”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza 6, page 200:]
Nouns inflected like pavilion
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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.
2. Cognate to French pavillon (“pavilion”) and papillon (“butterfly”), and similar terms in other Romance languages. See: French Nouns '
pavillon'.