Gazebo vs. Pagoda — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Gazebo and Pagoda
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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.
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.
Gazebo
A freestanding, roofed, usually open-sided structure providing a shady resting place.
Pagoda
(in India and East Asia) a Hindu or Buddhist temple, typically in the form of a many-tiered tower.
Gazebo
A belvedere.
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Pagoda
A religious building of East Asia and Southeast Asia, especially a multistory Buddhist tower with overhanging eaves separating each level, erected as a memorial or shrine.
Gazebo
A belvedere, either a type of summer-house or a roofed, detached porch-like structure, usually in a yard, park or lawn.
Pagoda
A stupa.
Gazebo
A small roofed building affording shade and rest
Pagoda
A structure, such as a garden pavilion, built in imitation of a multistory Buddhist tower.
Pagoda
A religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple.
Pagoda
An image or carving of a god in South and Southeast Asia; an idol.
Pagoda
A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties in medieval southern India.
Pagoda
An ornamental structure imitating the design of the religious building, erected in a park or garden.
Pagoda
(rare) A pagoda sleeve.
Pagoda
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.
Pagoda
An idol.
Pagoda
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.
Pagoda
An Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof
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