PAGODA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pagoda mean? 

• PAGODA (noun)
  The noun PAGODA has 1 sense:

1. an Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof

  Familiarity information: PAGODA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAGODA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pagoda" is a kind of...):

temple (place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity)

 Context examples 

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.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Like silver, he thought to himself, like tinkling silver bells; and on the instant, and for an instant, he was transported to a far land, where under pink cherry blossoms, he smoked a cigarette and listened to the bells of the peaked pagoda calling straw-sandalled devotees to worship.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

On the present occasion, Traddles was so hemmed in by the pagoda and the guitar-case, and Dora's flower-painting, and my writing-table, that I had serious doubts of the possibility of his using his knife and fork; but he protested, with his own good-humour, Oceans of room, Copperfield!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Such a beautiful little house as it is, with everything so bright and new; with the flowers on the carpets looking as if freshly gathered, and the green leaves on the paper as if they had just come out; with the spotless muslin curtains, and the blushing rose-coloured furniture, and Dora's garden hat with the blue ribbon—do I remember, now, how I loved her in such another hat when I first knew her!—already hanging on its little peg; the guitar-case quite at home on its heels in a corner; and everybody tumbling over Jip's pagoda, which is much too big for the establishment.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)