pagoda

Definition

A religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple.

Etymology

From Portuguese pagode, which is via Malayalam പകോതി (pakōti) from Sanskrit भगवती (bhagavatī, name of a goddess).

Example Sentences

• "On the journey southwards over the flat, fertile plains, paddy fields stretched away on each side of the line, and the landscape was broken only by wooden villages and stately pagodas."
• "[T]he Mahrattas having offered Alimerdy Khan his liberty for a lak of Pagodas; he does in the Nabob's name desire that the Governor of Madras would receive jewels and money to that amount into his custody, […]"
• "I, in about two hours, notwithstanding the utmost caution, found myself minus upwards of six hundred pagodas […] ."

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