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pagoda

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pa⋅go⋅da

  [puh-goh-duh]
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–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:
1625–35; < Pg pagode temple ≪ Pers butkada (but idol + kada temple, dwelling)

Related forms:
pa⋅go⋅da⋅like, adjective
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pa·go·da   (pə-gō'də)   
n.  

    1. A religious building of the Far East, especially a multistory Buddhist tower, erected as a memorial or shrine.

    2. A stupa.

  2. A structure, such as a garden pavilion, built in imitation of a multistory Buddhist tower.


[Portuguese pagode, perhaps from Tamil pagavadi, from Sanskrit bhagavatī, goddess, from feminine of bhagavat-, blessed, from bhagaḥ, good fortune; see bhag- in Indo-European roots.]
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