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Plural of pagoda

regular plural

The plural of pagoda is pagodas.

Forms of pagoda

Singularpagoda /pəˈɡoʊ.də/
Pluralpagodas
Countablecountable

Pagodas in a sentence

  • On the journey southwards over the flat, fertile plains, paddy fields stretched away on each side of the line, and the landscape was broken only by wooden villages and stately pagodas.1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325
  • The Spring Autumn Temple (chūn qiū gé) has a unique design and includes two pagodas that extend into the lake.[1994 July, Robert Storey, “South-West Taiwan”, in Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit, 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 241. From the entry Zuoying
  • Amid yellow pagodas pointing heavenward, Mr.2016 October 2, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Fate Catches Up to a Cultural Revolution Museum in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry mass grave
  • A city of flowers and pagodas, Xichang is the capital of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Region, which contains 3.3 million people, 1.37 million of them Yi.1987 December 20, Ross Terrill, “A World Away From Beijing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Apr…. From the entry Xichang
  • On the other hand the small, individual ones, especially those shaped as fruits, pagodas, cottages etc., though eminently shelfworthy, are very expensive.1964, John Bedford, Looking in junk shops, page 220. From the entry shelfworthy

Meaning of pagoda

  1. noun A Hindu temple.
  2. noun A tall building in an Indian, Burmese, or Thai style erected at Hindu or Buddhist temples in South and Southeast Asia, a stupa surmounted with a high point.
  3. noun A multi-storey tower in a Chinese style used in various contexts across East Asia and Nepal, usually with upturned curving roofs above each storey.

Full definition of pagoda

Questions about the plural of pagoda

What is the plural of pagoda?
The plural of pagoda is pagodas.
Is pagoda countable?
Pagoda is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pagoda (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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