watnoun [ C ]
/wæt//wæt/in Southeast Asia, a Buddhist temple (= a place of worship) or monastery (= a building in which monks live and worship):
Prabang, the historic royal city, embodies the Buddhist spirit with its 32 wats and hundreds of monks.
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- Thai immigrants established several wats in the Thai style.
- We stumbled upon our first little temple (Wat Mahathat) and in we went.
- A prominent family in Pattani supported the restoration of what is now a very important Theravada wat in Pattani province.
- After lunch visit the famous Wat Haripoonchai in Lampoon.
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Religious buildings & places
- abbey
- ashram
- caliphate
- cathedral
- chapel
- friary
- gurdwara
- hermitage
- house of God
- kirk
- monastery
- mosque
- nunnery
- pagoda
- parsonage
- stupa
- synagogue
- tabernacle
- United Church of Canada
- vicarage
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