Gazebo vs. Pagoda

Gazebonoun

A belvedere, either a type of summer-house or a roofed, detached porch-like structure, usually in a yard, park or lawn.

Pagodanoun

An Asian religious building, especially a multistory Buddhist tower, erected as a shrine or temple.

Gazebonoun

a small roofed building affording shade and rest

Pagodanoun

An ornamental structure, of that design, erected in a park or garden.

Gazebo

A gazebo is a pavilion structure, sometimes octagonal or turret-shaped, often built in a park, garden or spacious public area. Some are used on occasions as bandstands.

Pagodanoun

(historical) A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties in medieval southern India.

Pagodanoun

(archaic) An Indian idol.

Pagodanoun

A pagoda sleeve.

Pagodanoun

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.

Pagodanoun

An idol.

Pagodanoun

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.

Pagodanoun

an Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof

Pagodanoun

(in India and East Asia) a Hindu or Buddhist temple, typically in the form of a many-tiered tower.

Pagodanoun

an ornamental imitation of a Hindu or Buddhist pagoda.

Pagoda

A pagoda is a tiered tower with multiple eaves common to China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and other parts of Asia. Most pagodas were built to have a religious function, most often Buddhist but sometimes Taoist, and were often located in or near viharas.