pagoda

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pa=go=da

CIDE DICTIONARY

pagoda, n. [Pg. pagoda, pagode, fr. Hind. & Per. but-kadah a house of idols, or abode of God; Per. but an idol + kadah a house, a temple.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  An idol.  Brande & C.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pagoda, n.
1 a Hindu or Buddhist temple or sacred building, esp. a many-tiered tower, in India and the Far East.
2 an ornamental imitation of this.

Idiom

pagoda-tree any of various trees, esp. Sophora japonica, resembling a pagoda in shape.

Etymology

Port. pagode, prob. ult. f. Pers. butkada idol temple

THESAURUS

pagoda

alcove, antenna tower, barbican, belfry, bell tower, belvedere, campanile, colossus, column, cupola, derrick, dewal, dome, fane, fire tower, garden, gazebo, girja, kiack, lantern, lighthouse, martello, martello tower, masjid, mast, minaret, monument, mosque, obelisk, observation tower, pantheon, pilaster, pillar, pinnacle, pole, pylon, pyramid, shaft, shul, skyscraper, spire, standpipe, steeple, stupa, synagogue, tabernacle, television mast, temple, tope, tour, tower, turret, water tower, windmill tower

ROGET THESAURUS

pagoda

Temple

N temple, place of worship, house of God, house of prayer, temple, cathedral, minster, church, kirk, chapel, meetinghouse, bethel, tabernacle, conventicle, basilica, fane, holy place, chantry, oratory, synagogue, mosque, marabout, pantheon, pagoda, joss house, dogobah, tope, kiosk, kiack, masjid, parsonage, rectory, vicarage, manse, deanery, glebe, Vatican, bishop's palace, Lambeth, altar, shrine, sanctuary, Holy of Holies, sanctum sanctorum, sacristy, sacrarium, communion table, holy table, Lord's table, table of the Lord, pyx, baptistery, font, piscina, stoup, aumbry, sedile, reredos, rood loft, rood screen, chancel, quire, choir, nave, aisle, transept, vestry, crypt, golgotha, calvary, Easter sepulcher, stall, pew, pulpit, ambo, lectern, reading desk, confessional, prothesis, credence, baldachin, baldacchino, apse, belfry, chapter house, presbytery, anxious-bench, anxious-seat, diaconicum, jube, mourner's bench, mourner's seat, cloisters, churchyard, monastery, priory, abbey, friary, convent, nunnery, cloister, claustral, cloistered, monastic, monasterial, conventual, ne vile fano, there's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple.