Pagoda

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A religious building of the Far East, especially a multistory Buddhist tower, erected as a memorial or shrine.
  • n. A stupa.
  • n. A structure, such as a garden pavilion, built in imitation of a multistory Buddhist tower.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An Asian religious building, especially a multistory Buddhist tower, erected as a shrine or temple.
  • n. An ornamental structure, of that design, erected in a park or garden.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. An idol.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
  • n. An idol.
  • n. [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.
  • n. [capitalized] [NL.] In zoology, a genus of mollusks.
  • n. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    temple   
    Cross Reference
    swami pagoda    wat    stupa   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    idol   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Rhoda    Roda    coda    noda    oda    soda    svoboda    toda   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    mosque    minaret    mausoleum    pavilion    citadel    steeple    fastness    spire    pyramid    colonnade