Pagoda
English Meaning
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.
- A religious building of the Far East, especially a multistory Buddhist tower, erected as a memorial or shrine.
- A stupa.
- A structure, such as a garden pavilion, built in imitation of a multistory Buddhist tower.