Pagoda
[pə'gəʊdə] or [pə'ɡodə]
Definition
(noun.) an Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof.
Checker: Roland--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) An idol.
(n.) 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.
Checker: Walter
Definition
n. an idol-house: an Indian idol: its temple: a gold coin formerly current in India so called because the figure of a pagoda was stamped upon it—also Pagode′.—n. Pagō′dite the mineral which the Chinese carve into figures of pagodas &c.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a pagoda in your dreams, denotes that you will soon go on a long desired journey. If a young woman finds herself in a pagoda with her sweetheart, many unforeseen events will transpire before her union is legalized. An empty one, warns her of separation from her lover.
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Examples
- She put her hand up and the boy came out from the Pagoda bar beside the stables. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He chirruped paternally at his small white children through the bars of the pagoda, and we all left the house for the lake. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He put the pagoda-cage on his lap, and let out the mice to crawl over him as usual. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- His white mice live in a little pagoda of gaily-painted wirework, designed and made by himself. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He was riding on an elephant away from some cocoa-nut trees and a pagoda: it was an Eastern scene. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I suspect it may have been because nothing had a place of its own, except Jip's pagoda, which invariably blocked up the main thoroughfare. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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