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Plaza vs Pavilion - What's the difference?

plaza | pavilion |

As nouns the difference between plaza and pavilion

is that plaza is a town’s public square while pavilion is an ornate tent.

As a verb pavilion is

to furnish with a pavilion.

plaza

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a town’s public square.
  • an open area used for gathering in a city, often having small trees and sitting benches.
  • Synonyms

    * square

    Coordinate terms

    * (l)

    Hyponyms

    * (l)

    Anagrams

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    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")
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