(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Atop the pagoda near Bagan, the political activist who is now in hiding said the military was wrong to believe it has cowed another generation.
(2) A rare case of congenital intestinal obstruction of hereditary nature, the so-called "pagoda" syndrome, is described.
(3) We weren’t trying to satisfy the demands of that day.” It has hosted Britain’s first multiplex cinema, first peace pagoda and almost certainly its first public infinity pool Rather than create a centre from buildings like other new towns such as Cumbernauld with its hulking concrete shopping precinct, CMK was designed as a centre of broad boulevards edged in expensive Cornish granite and lined with London plane trees.
(4) I walked down into town from the pagoda and was enveloped in a happy crowd outside a monastery celebrating the full moon.
(5) Purified laminin as a substrate induces rapid outgrowth of Retzius (R) and Anterior Pagoda (AP) cells in culture.
(6) Paris’s 10th and 11th arrondissements are full on Fridays, and home also to the Bataclan, a pagoda-like theatre painted in vivid yellows, reds and citruses, which looms over the Boulevard Voltaire like an eccentric aunt.
(7) Signals from T cells and anterior pagoda (AP) cells were weaker but could be detected with averaging.
(8) The mP cell synapses directly with many other cells in the leech ganglion, including the anterior pagoda (AP) cell, longitudinal (L) motoneurone and the annulus erector (AE) motoneurone, which were studied as a group of postsynaptic neurones.
(9) They include one of the most important, the Durbar Square in Kathmandu, which held pagodas and temples from the 15th to 18th centuries, she said.
(10) On Tuesday, prices ranged from $20 for a trinket to $60,000 for a five-tiered pagoda carved in ivory.
(11) Thus, Leydig cells cultured with Leydig cells established non-rectifying electrical connections, as did Retzius cells, longitudinal motoneurones (L cells) and anterior pagoda (AP) cells, each paired with its own cell type.
(12) With every new building bidding for the best view of the Shwedagon Pagoda, we’re not going to have any views left,” says Daw Moe Moe Lwin, director of the Yangon Heritage Trust (YHT), a campaign group founded in 2012 by architects and historians keen to save south-east Asia’s last surviving colonial core.
(13) Although Mobutu died, he left it for us.” This palace and two others in Gbadolite – one designed as a cluster of Chinese pagodas, the other for state business and now occupied by the military – are in terminal decline, but the town itself survives with a population of 159,000, a bustling marketplace and a sprinkling of bars and restaurants.
(14) In an early mission, Agent 47 is tasked with killing a nasty man who hangs out in a pagoda in a busy square.
(15) A mysterious green egg shape hangs from a pagoda–like object, next to which is a tiny hanging green fairy on the summit of an odd triangular gilt construction.
(16) There was the neon Twiglet of the Pearl Tower; the World Financial Center, at nearly 500m, looking like a giant bottle opener; and the staggeringly beautiful Jin Mao Tower, like a cut-glass pagoda.
(17) Indeed his poem Mandalay starts: “By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin’ eastward to the sea” – a shame then that Kyaikthanlan Pagoda, immortalised in Kipling’s words, actually looks west to the sea, but I guess he and his soldier were distracted by the beauty of his “Burma girl”.
(18) Mawlamyine appeared around a bend, below a ridge of pagoda-topped hills.
(19) The next day, my last, the buildings and apartment blocks started getting much taller, many with pagoda decorations on the rooftops.
(20) An employee at the White Pagoda drugstore added: "People didn't come here to buy one or two, but ordered a lot for their friends and family, and companies came here to buy for their staff, too. "
Stupa
Definition:
(n.) A mound or monument commemorative of Buddha.
(n.) See 1st Stupe.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the area between Kabul and Peshawar, one fifth-century Chinese traveller counted no fewer than 2,400 such shrines – as well as a scattering of well-planned classical cities, acropoli, amphitheatres and stupas .
(2) The stupa of the pagoda burned golden until the sun fell rapidly into the jungle.
(3) A Buddhist stupa – commemorative monument – inside a monastery at Mes Aynak.
(4) These ranged from four fortified monasteries, a Zoroastrian fire temple and several Buddhist stupas (commemorative monuments), through ancient copper working, smelting workshops, miners habitations and a mint, as well as two small forts and a citadel.
(5) At the top we dived into a succession of monastic complexes where lines of sitting Buddha statues faced onto small slate stupas with classical columns covered with plastic sheeting.