Pagoda

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A religious building of East Asia and Southeast Asia, especially a multistory Buddhist tower with widely overhanging eaves separating each level, erected as a memorial or shrine.
  • noun. A stupa.
  • noun. A structure, such as a garden pavilion, built in imitation of a multistory Buddhist tower.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A small ornamental structure made in imitation of an Eastern pagoda: especially, such a building in the streets of a city in which various small articles, such as tea, etc., are sold.
  • noun. In the far East, as India, China, Burma, etc., a sacred tower, usually more or less pyramidal in outline, richly carved, painted, or otherwise adorned, and of several stories, connected or not with a temple.
  • noun. An idol.
  • noun. [Formerly also pagody; so called with ref. to the figure of a pagoda on the coin. The natives in Madras called the coin hun and varahā (Telugu) or varāhan (Tamil).] A gold coin current in India from the sixteenth century.
  • noun. [capitalized] [NL.] In zoology, a genus of mollusks.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not always, devoted to idol worship.
  • noun. An idol.
  • noun. A gold or silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and a half rupees.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An Asian religious building, especially a multistory Buddhist tower, erected as a shrine or temple.
  • noun. An ornamental structure, of that design, erected in a park or garden.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof
  • Word Usage
    ""I think I shall put into the tablecloth a certain pagoda I remember.""
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    stupa  swami pagoda  wat  
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    temple  
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    Rhoda  Roda  coda  noda  oda  
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