pagoda
IPA: pʌgˈoʊdʌ
noun
- A religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple.
- (now rare, usually in form pagod) An image or carving of a god in South and Southeast Asia; an idol.
- (now historical) A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties in medieval southern India.
- An ornamental structure imitating the design of the religious building, erected in a park or garden.
- (rare) A pagoda sleeve.
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Examples of "pagoda" in Sentences
- The roof of the pagoda is pyramid shaped.
- The unique pagoda is the symbol of Anyang.
- The pagoda is an evolution of the Indian stupa.
- The ninth pagoda occupies the center of the roof.
- The perimeter of the pagoda decreases as it rises.
- One British visitor, Henry Yule, dubbed the pagoda an
- Bells hung on the eaves of the pagoda chime in breeze.
- The pagoda entrance is on the banks of the Dong Ba canal.
- The pinnacle of the pagoda is adorned with a large crystal.
- The base of the pagoda is placed on the level portion of the rock.
- "I think I shall put into the tablecloth a certain pagoda I remember."
- At this point the raft returns to the loading pagoda and riders disembark.
- The pagoda was a shopping plaza on Bolsa Avenue where no sign was printed in English.
- To the right of the pagoda were the heavily embellished tombs of the most venerated monks who had lived here.
- The area around the pagoda was also mined, except for a narrow corridor which ran from the pagoda to the northwest corner of the compound
- The pagoda was the nearest cover to them, and they raced for it with all their speed, the quick-firing Mannlichers scourging them with a whistling shower of lead as they flew.
- The pagoda is the most venerated of all Buddhist places of worship, containing as it does not only the eight sacred hairs of Gautama, but also relics of the three Buddhas who preceded him.
- The four-storey pagoda, which is almost four feet high and one-and-a-half feet wide, is thought by archaeologists to be one of the 84,000 pagodas commissioned by Ashoka the Great in the second century BC to house the remains of the Buddha.
- Although the age and source of the Buddhas is unknown, four additional silver and bronze statues were also found beneath the pagoda, which is thought to be at least 200 years old, leading archaeologists to suspect that the diminutive Buddhas themselves are older.