Pagoda is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a tower-like structure with multiple levels that is usually found in East and Southeast Asia and is used for religious purposes. You can use it in any sentence where you need to refer to such a structure. Example sentence: "The ancient pagoda had been standing in the town square for generations."
Did that man strip naked on top of a pagoda and start waving his old chap around in time to Gorillaz for this?
Instead, a young boy gives me an umbrella and two monks lead me across the sandy courtyard past a stone pagoda towards the Hall of the White Lotus.
IN THE streets surrounding the Sule Paya pagoda in downtown Yangon, Burmese Muslims ply their trade, selling sweetmeats, calligraphy or spectacles.
Its main draw then was the golden Shwedagon pagoda, which still dominates the city's skyline.After the British plundered the Shwedagon, which they occupied as a military base, they rebuilt the lower section of the town on a geometrical grid.
From October 22nd-24th Mrauk-u, a tourist centre in Rakhine state in Myanmar, and former capital of the independent kingdom of Arakan, turned into a war zone.Below the pagoda a spontaneous, medieval army was massing.
On the skyline, the hilltop gilt of the Shwedagon pagoda still gleams, but cranes loom above rows of rusty, tin roofs.Some worry about what might be lost.
Wealthier Bedouin replaced their shacks with villas topped with bizarre pagoda-shaped roofs.
Looking more like a beached supertanker than the usual stone-walled pagoda-hatted plant, it is intended to pour out 10m litres of whisky a year.It is a bold development, especially as the success of whisky's overseas marketing has been based on emphasising quality derived from more than a century of tradition and heritage.
The Shrine of the Book houses the Dead Sea Scrolls in a building whose pagoda-like dome is reminiscent of the shape of the ancient jars in which the scrolls were found in 1947.
Stalagmites also take on many forms, from slender broom-handle to mound- and pagoda-like shapes.
Each of the first 11 of these tiers above the base has progressively fewer floors than the one below and flares outward slightly at its top in the manner of a pagoda-style roof.
