Palace vs Pavilion - What's the difference?
palace | pavilion |
Official residence of a head of state or other dignitary, especially in a monarchical or imperial governmental system.
A large and lavishly ornate residence.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 A large, ornate public building used for entertainment or exhibitions.
(archaic) To decorate or ornate.
* {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Kenneth Morris, title=The Crest-Wave of Evolution, chapter=, edition=
, passage=And this Great King was a far-way, tremendous, golden figure, moving in a splendor as of fairy tales; palaced marvelously, so travelers told, in cities compared with which even Athens seemed mean. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1874, author=Benj. N. Martin, title=Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader, chapter=, edition=
, passage=May, with her green lap full of sprouting leaves and bright blossoms, her song-birds making the orchards and meadows vocal, and rippling streams and cultivated gardens; June, with full-blown roses and humming-bees, plenteous meadows and wide cornfields, with embattled lines rising thick and green; August, with reddened orchards and heavy-headed harvests of grain, October, with yellow leaves and swart shadows; December, palaced in snow, and idly whistling through his numb fingers;-all have their various charm; and in the rose-bowers of summer, and as we spread our hands before the torches of winter, we say joyfully, "Thou hast made all things beautiful in their time."}}
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an ornate tent
a light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place
a structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc
(cricket) the building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals
a detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex
the lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet
(anatomy) the cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle
(anatomy) The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
(military) A flag, ensign, or banner.
(heraldry) A tent used as a bearing.
A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
* Shelley
to furnish with a pavilion
to put inside a pavilion
(figuratively) to enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour")
As nouns the difference between palace and pavilion
is that palace is official residence of a head of state or other dignitary, especially in a monarchical or imperial governmental system while pavilion is an ornate tent.As verbs the difference between palace and pavilion
is that palace is to decorate or ornate while pavilion is to furnish with a pavilion.As a proper noun Palace
is Crystal Palace Football Club, a football team from London.palace
English
(wikipedia palace)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}
Derived terms
* palace politics * palatial * puck palaceVerb
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pavilion
English
Noun
(en noun)- The pavilion of heaven is bare.
