Definitions for pagoda

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pagoda pa·go·da

Spelling: [puh-goh-duh]

IPA: /pəˈgoʊ də/

Pagoda is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in pagoda (aadgop).

Definitions for pagoda

noun

1. (in India, Burma, China, etc.) a temple or sacred building, usually a pyramidlike tower and typically having upward-curving roofs over the individual stories.
2. any of several former gold or silver coins of southern India, usually bearing a figure of such a temple, first issued in the late 16th century and later also by British, French, and Dutch traders.

Origin of pagoda

1625-35; Portuguese pagode temple ≪ Persian butkada (but idol + kada temple, dwelling)

Examples for pagoda

With them he returned the following morning and they climbed up into the pagoda.

When the tale had been told him he took a heavy ax and went to the pagoda.

The view of the pagoda from the avenue is indeed126 wonderful.

Looking down from her pagoda she saw a wanderer passing below.

Then our party divided, some going to see the pagoda, and others to see the rice-mills.

He supported many monks, he gave largely to the gilding of the pagoda.

The pagoda might be an erroneous variant of the thunderbolt Vadjra.

Not till he had promised all this did the Buddha let him out of the pagoda again.

She called out, but the pagoda was so high that her voice did not carry down to him.

He holds a pagoda in one hand and a dragon sword in the other.