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pagod

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • General-American: /ˈpæɡəd/
  • General-American: /pəˈɡɑd/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpaɡəd/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /pəˈɡɒd/

1

noun

Meaning 1

Synonym of idol, particularly in South and Southeast Asia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic

Examples

  • 1688, Gabriel Magalhaens, A New History of China, translator not credited, London: Thomas Newborough, p. 259, https://books.google.ca/books?id=fUQI3KVX4bIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false If they say that the King is more powerfull, How comes it then to pass, say we, that the King throws himself upon his Knees before the Pagod, and adores him by bowing his head to the Earth?
  • 1705, William Wotton on A Tale of a Tub, in Jonathan Swift: The Critical Heritage, Kathleen Williams (ed.), 2002, London: Routledge, p. 46, How strictly do the Banians, and the other Sects of the Gentile East-Indians worship their Pagods, and respect their Temples?
  • 1814, Lord Byron, Journal in Thomas Moore, The Life of Lord Byron, with his Letters and Journals, London: John Murray, 1854, p.233, https://books.google.ca/books?id=oa88AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Offered to take Scrope home in my carriage; but he was tipsy and pious, and I was obliged to leave him on his knees praying to I know not what purpose or pagod.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: idol, particularly in South and Southeast Asia

Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 2

Alternative form of pagoda, various structures, a former coin.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative, archaic

Examples

  • 1735, Alexander Pope, Satire IV, Satires, in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, edited by Henry Walcott Boynton, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903, lines 364-7, http://www.bartleby.com/203/156.html 'T would burst ev'n Heraclitus with spleen / To see those antics, Fobling and Courtin: / The Presence seems, with things so richly odd, / The mosque of Mahound, or some queer pagod.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Variant form of pagoda.