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Pavilion vs Mandapa - What's the difference?

pavilion | mandapa |

As nouns the difference between pavilion and mandapa

is that pavilion is an ornate tent while mandapa is (in south india|architecture) a pillared hall or porch fronting a hindu temple it may be attached or detached from the building.

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

    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

    mandapa

    Alternative forms

    * mandap * mandapam

    Noun

    (mandapas)
  • (in south India, architecture) A pillared hall or porch fronting a Hindu temple. It may be attached or detached from the building.
  • A temporary platform or sacred tent used for a wedding or other religious ceremony.
  • *1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 44:
  • *:She led the way inside the house to the mandap .