Definitions for pagodas

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pagodas pa·go·da

Spelling: [puh-goh-duh]

IPA: /pəˈgoʊ də/

Pagodas is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in pagodas (aadgops).

Definitions for pagodas

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 pagodas

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

Examples for pagodas

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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