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pavilion

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A tent or temporary shelter, especially a grand one in older poetry.

Detailed Definition
In poetic and historical usage, a pavilion can mean a tent or canopy-like shelter. Shelley uses it for the sky’s temporary covering after rain, giving the cloud a ceremonial, tent-like image.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The pavilion of Heaven is bare,” imagines the sky as a vast ceremonial canopy; Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” places song beneath “the light-winged Dryad of the trees,” a natural pavilion; “Beneath the wedding pavilion, rain tapped silk,” uses the noun for a temporary tent; In war poetry, a pavilion may suggest a commander’s ornate field tent
Additional Notes
The word 'pavilion' in the quoted line is used in an older, poetic sense of a tent-like shelter, which may not be the first meaning readers know.; Found in the poem, The Cloud by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Other Meanings of “pavilion”
Also Known As
gazebo summerhouse garden shelter
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