pagoda

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a Hindu or Buddhist temple or sacred tower, especially one built in several upward-curving tiers

   A five-storey pagoda rose above the trees near the temple gate.

Borrowed in the sixteenth century from Portuguese pagode. Its deeper origin is debated, but the Portuguese word was probably shaped by one or more South Asian terms for a sacred image or sanctuary.

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