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Pavilion vs Balcony - What's the difference?

pavilion | balcony |

As nouns the difference between pavilion and balcony

is that pavilion is an ornate tent while balcony is an accessible structure extending from a building, especially outside a window.

As a verb pavilion

is to furnish with a pavilion.

pavilion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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
    • The pavilion of heaven is bare.

    Synonyms

    * (part of ear) auricle, pinna

    Related terms

    * papillon

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to furnish with a pavilion
  • to put inside a pavilion
  • (figuratively) to enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour")

    • References

    balcony

    English

    (wikipedia balcony)

    Noun

    (balconies)
  • An accessible structure extending from a building, especially outside a window.
    • (Shakespeare)
    (the Bible)
  • An accessible structure overlooking a stage or the like.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}