Angkor

[ ang-kawr, -kohr ]

noun

1. a vast assemblage of ruins of the Khmer empire, near the modern city of Siem Reap in NW Cambodia: many elaborately carved and decorated temples, stone statues, gateways, and towers.

Angkor

/ ˈæŋkɔː /

noun

1. a large area of ruins in NW Cambodia, containing Angkor Thom ( tɔːm ), the capital of the former Khmer Empire, and Angkor Wat ( wɒt ), a three-storey temple, which were overgrown with dense jungle from the 14th to 19th centuries

Example Sentences

For hundreds of years, Angkor’s layout remained hidden beneath the jungle.

From MIT Technology Review

With lidar maps, archaeologists could at last verify that Angkor had been home to nearly a million people at its height—a claim that had been widely disputed.

From MIT Technology Review

Indeed, as Annalee Newitz writes, there is much being discovered in the centuries-old histories of Angkor, Pompeii, New York, and elsewhere that challenges our received wisdom about how great cities rose, and who built them.

From MIT Technology Review

Angkor was a sophisticated city with hundreds of thousands of residents—until its collapse.

From Time

A prime example is the city of Angkor, the capital of the Khmer Empire in Cambodia from the 9th to 15th centuries.

From Time

The Temple of Angkor had 1,532 columns, and the stone for the structure was brought from a quarry thirty-two miles distant.

From Project Gutenberg

The reliefs in the great corridors of Angkor are purely decorative.

From Project Gutenberg

At Angkor there are several such structures built of large blocks of hewn stone.

From Project Gutenberg

Ruined city, near which are ruins of Angkor-Vat, a famous Cambodian temple.

From Project Gutenberg

Some of these Guatemala structures show a quite extraordinary resemblance to those at Angkor in Cambodia.

From Project Gutenberg