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Definition: Pagoda |
PagodaNoun1. An Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pagoda" was first used: 1582. (references) |
Etymology: Pagoda \Pa*go"da\, noun. [from Portuguese expression pagoda, pagode, fr.Hind. Per. but-kadah house of idols, or abode of God; Per. but an idol kadah house, temple.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | 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. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Pagoda A temple in China, Hindustan, etc. (Hindustanee, boot-khuda, abode of God; Persian, put-gada, idol-house; Spanish, pagoda.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Chedi at Doi Suthep, Chiang Mai
Larger versionA Pagoda is a building in buddhist temples mostly in South-East Asia. They are usually bell-shaped towers, but many regional and historical architectural styles lead to many different designs of pagodas.
The name pagoda is actually the name for Burmese building style, however it became the main english term. Other local names include:
Pagodas are often extensively decorated, most commonly covered with gold, or with ceramics. They often contained alleged relics of Buddha, or were built as burial shrines for kings or nobles.
- Pagoda - Myanmar (Burma)
- Dagoba - Sri Lanka
- Stupa - India
- Chedi - Thailand
- Prang - Cambodia
- That - Laos
- Tap - Korea
The biggest pagoda is the Phra Pathom Chedi in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, with a height of 127 meters.
For further examples, see:
- Daqin Pagoda (China)
- Sanchi (India)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pagoda."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PAGODA | Danish | Profiltilpasningsgruppe for kontordokumentarkitektur | Computing |
PAGODA | English | Profile Alignment Group for ODA | Computing |
PAGODA | French | Groupe PAGODA | Computing |
PAGODA | Greek | ομάδα εναρμόνισης κατατομών για την αρχιτεκτονική εγγράφων | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Temple | Synagogue; mosque; marabout; pantheon; pagoda; joss house; dogobah, tope; kiosk; kiack, masjid. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pagoda |
| English words defined with "pagoda": Collinsia bicolor, Collinsia heterophylla ♦ innocense ♦ Pagod, purple chinese houses. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pagoda": Pagod. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pagoda" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (pagoda), Hungarian (pagoda), Italian (pagoda), Serbo-Croatian (pagoda), Spanish (pagoda), Turkish (pagoda). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Défense d'une pagoda (1904) Bach at the Pagoda (1997) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pagoda, Forest Park, Springfield, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Madura - the bathing tank, showing golden pagoda and south tower of the Temple of Siva. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Rangoon - entrance to pagoda. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Foggy pagoda" by Henry Yao Commentary: "Pagoda in han zhou." | "... double trouble ..." by Steve Matthews Commentary: "Lotus Pond - Kaohsiung Taiwan... double trouble from the Pagoda." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Wisdom and The Chinese | Better do a kindness near home than go far to burn incense. To save one life is better than to build a seven story pagoda. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There in the synagogue, in the mosque, a hideous side that we detest, and in the pagoda and in the wigwam, a sublime aspect that we adore |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Burma | There was an unconfirmed report from the Democratic Voice of Burma that on August 1, military security personnel arrested a monk for delivering a sermon criticizing the economic and political conditions in the country at a ceremony at the Mahamyatmunni Payagyi Pagoda in Mandalay. (references) |
Vietnam | UBCV leaders have unsuccessfully requested official recognition since 1981. Thich Huyen Quang, the Supreme Patriarch of the UBCV has been confined to an isolated pagoda since 1982 under conditions resembling house arrest. (references) | |
Vietnam | Between 100 and 200 visitors worship at the central Hoa Hao Pagoda in An Giang Province on a daily basis. (references) | |
Human Rights | Vietnam | Rather than allow him to return to his previous residence, Ho Chi Minh City, authorities reportedly pressured him to register the isolated pagoda in Quang Ngai as his official permanent residence. (references) |
Vietnam | Thich Huyen Quang, Supreme Patriarch of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), has been confined to a pagoda in Quang Ngai Province since 1982. Provincial police reportedly told him in 1997 that his term of detention had officially concluded. (references) | |
Trade | Burma | No. 21/25, Sule Pagoda Road, Pabedan P.O. Yangon, Myanmar. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Pagoda" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 70.37% of the time. "Pagoda" is used about 54 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 70.37% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Noun (proper) | 29.63% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Total | 100.00% | 54 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "pagoda" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Pagoda | Last name | 130 | 69,364 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Piercing Pagoda, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "pagoda": japanese pagoda tree ♦ pagoda sleeve ♦ pagoda tree ♦ shake the pagoda tree. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "pagoda": pagoda-land, pagoda-like, pagoda-shaped, pagoda-style, pagoda-topped. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "pagoda"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pagodë, faltore (chapel, sanctuary, shrine, tabernacle, temple). (various references) | |
Arabic | هيكل متعدد الأدوار, باغودا معبد بوذي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пагода. (various references) | |
Chinese | 寶塔 , 塔 (tower). (various references) | |
Czech | pagoda. (various references) | |
Danish | profiltilpasningsgruppe for kontordokumentarkitektur (Profile Alignment Group for ODA, Profile Alignment Group for office document architecture), Profile Alignment Group for office document architecture (Profile Alignment Group for ODA, Profile Alignment Group for office document architecture), PAGODA (Profile Alignment Group for ODA, Profile Alignment Group for office document architecture). (various references) | |
Dutch | Profile Alignment Group for Office Document Architecture (Profile Alignment Group for ODA, Profile Alignment Group for office document architecture), PAGODA (Profile Alignment Group for ODA, Profile Alignment Group for office document architecture). (various references) | |
Farsi | پاگودا, ساختمان بسبک مخصوص چین وژاپون , بتکده . (various references) | |
Finnish | PAGODA (Profile Alignment Group for ODA, Profile Alignment Group for office document architecture). (various references) | |
French | pagode, PAGODA, groupe PAGODA. (various references) | |
German | Pagode. (various references) | |
Greek | παγόδα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | pagoda. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kelenteng. (various references) | |
Italian | PAGODA (Profile Alignment Group for ODA, Profile Alignment Group for office document architecture). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | パクパク人形 (late-night phone call, Pacific, Pacific League, packet, pajamas, Pascal, pass, path, puppet with a moving mouth, pyjamas, state of being dried out), 仏塔 , 塔婆 (stupa, wooden grave tablet), 塔 (tower). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | パゴダ , ぶっとう, とうば (stupa, wooden grave tablet), とう (and the like, be frozen over, building, cane, child, congeal, counter for large animals, engraving tool, et cetera, etc., foolishness, freeze, ground spider, knife, party, place, rattan, saber, section, servant, sickle, steal, sugar, sword, T'ang-Dynasty, to accuse, to ask, to charge, to question, tower, without regard to). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agodapay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pagode (racket, spree), grupo de alinhamento para perfil para ODA (Profile Alignment Group for ODA, Profile Alignment Group for office document architecture). (various references) | |
Romanian | pagodã. (various references) | |
Russian | пагода. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pagoda. (various references) | |
Spanish | pagoda. (various references) | |
Swedish | Profile Alignment Group for ODA (Profile Alignment Group for ODA, Profile Alignment Group for office document architecture), PAGODA (Profile Alignment Group for ODA, Profile Alignment Group for office document architecture), pagod. (various references) | |
Turkish | pagoda, uzakdoğu tapınağı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | легка будівля, пагода. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sanskrit | 300 BCE-Modern | bhagavati. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pagoda": pagodas. (additional references) | |
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"Pagoda" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Agodo, Apolda, Magoda, pagado, pago, Pagoaga, pagodi, pagodo, pagods, pagona, pagora, pagosa, Pajoca, paota, parodia, parodu, pogoed, pongidae, Pragocar, Sargodha. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pagoda" (pronounced pugō"du) |
| 3 | -ō" d u | coda, soda. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-g-o-p" | |
-1 letter: pagod. | |
-2 letters: apod, dago, dopa, goad. | |
-3 letters: ado, aga, ago, dag, dap, dog, gad, gap, goa, god, pad, pod. | |
-4 letters: aa, ad, ag, do, go, od, op, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-g-o-p" | |
+1 letter: pagodas, podagra. | |
+2 letters: galopade, pagandom, podagral, podagras. | |
+3 letters: gallopade, galopades, pagandoms, paragoned. | |
+4 letters: gallopades, propaganda, propagated, radiograph, snapdragon. | |
+5 letters: autographed, cardiograph, pedagogical, propagandas, radiographs, radiography, scapegoated, shadowgraph, snapdragons. | |
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