Definition of pagoda
: a tower in eastern Asia usually with roofs curving upward at the division of each of several stories and erected as a temple or memorial
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The only lights came from the balconied hotels and elevated pagodas on the shore, and from a temple with a startlingly large and hunched black Buddha, in a golden robe with glinting white eyes.
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The pagoda’s retractable roof means guests may sit outside even in the rain.
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There is a swimming pool and two pagodas that serve as bath houses for swimmers.
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Cattlemen, railroad workers, traveling salesmen stomped under Chambers’ little pagoda porch with its concrete bamboo supports.
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The festival, convened every two years, was held in crisp white pagoda tents beneath Swedish, Dutch, and Icelandic flags that flapped over the shores of the Drontermeer Lake west of town.
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Buildings that were added to the campus featured fanciful designs: a pagoda, a Greek temple, a Spanish mission, a windmill, a castle.
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For example, pagoda dogwood (Cornus alternifolia) — a native Midwestern plant, despite its exotic name — can be lovely in a garden.
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Two stories of blue, curved, Chinese pagoda–like roofs rose out of a valley between low, verdant hills blanketed by msasa trees.
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Origin and Etymology of pagoda
Portuguese pagode statue of a deity, Hindu or Buddhist temple
PAGODA Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of pagoda for English Language Learners
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: a type of tall building in eastern Asia that has many floors with roofs that stick out on each floor and curve up
PAGODA Defined for Kids
Definition of pagoda for Students
: a tower of several stories built as a temple or memorial in eastern or southeastern Asia
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