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.

An idol.

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.

tall structure in several stories

gold coin current in South India and Ceylon. Two kinds: (1) Star pagoda, coined by the East India company at Madras and worth 8 shillings; (2) Porto Novo pagoda, coined by the Dutch at Tuticorin and by the Nawabs of Arcot. 100 Star pagodas were worth 120 Porto Novo pagodas.

(- tou) tiered temple

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

a freestanding tower-like Asiatic structure

a house of worship

a place of worship for Buddhists, but a temple is a place of worship for all the people

multistoried tower, usually but not exclusively associated with Buddhist shrines

A temple that evolved from the Indian stupa. Found in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

The word came into English from Portuguese and may derive from the Persian butkada=temple for idols. It is now used for a sacred Chinese or Indian building, or an imitation of such a building in a garden.

A Buddhist temple in the form of a tower, usually polygonal, with elaborately ornamented roofs projecting from each of its many stories.{insert KK here

Typically an east-Asian multistoried memorial structure, ultimately derived from an elaboration of the upper portions of a stupa.

An Indian or Far Eastern Buddhist temple, especially a tower, usually pyramidal and having many storeys (Portuguese).

A multi tiered tower of India and the Far East erected as a temple or memorial.

A temple or sacred building, typically in an Asian nation, usually pyramidal, forming a tower with upward curving roofs over the individual stories.