Pagoda

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pagoda \Pa*go"da\, 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.]
     1. 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.
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     2. An idol. [R.] --Brande & C.
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     3. [Prob. so named from the image of a pagoda or a deity (cf.
        Skr. bhagavat holy, divine) stamped on it.] 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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pagoda
       n : an Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward
           curving roof

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PAGODA, comm. law. A denomination of money in Bengal. In the computation of 
  ad valorem duties, it is valued at one dollar and ninety-four cent's. Act of 
  March 2, 1799, s. 61, 1 Story's L. U. S. 626. Vide Foreign Coins.