Bible Dictionaries
Pagoda

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(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.

(2):

(n.) An idol.

(3):

(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pagoda'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/pagoda.html. 1828.