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Ramada vs Pavilion - What's the difference?

ramada | pavilion |

As nouns the difference between ramada and pavilion

is that ramada is a simple arbour or open porch, typically roofed with branches while pavilion is an ornate tent.

As a verb pavilion is

to furnish with a pavilion.

ramada

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US) A simple arbour or open porch, typically roofed with branches.
  • * 1992 , Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses :
  • They sat in the shade of the pole and brush ramada in front of the place and sipped their drinks and looked out at the desolate stillness of the little crossroads at noon.
  • * 2006 , Wayne R Kime, Colonel Richard Irving Dodge , p. 23:
  • As protection against the fierce heat, he caused a ramada to be constructed over and around his tent, which he employed only for sleeping.
  • * 2008 , Sally Binford & Lewis Binford, Archeology in Cultural Systems , p. 155:
  • The well- built structure suggested that the occupation was not temporary, and the presence of the ramada indicated that at least part of the occupation was during warm weather.

    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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