Angkor

[ ang-kawr, -kohr ]

/ ˈæŋ kɔr, -koʊr /

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noun

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.

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How to use Angkor in a sentence

For hundreds of years, Angkor’s layout remained hidden beneath the jungle.
How technology helped archaeologists dig deeper|Annalee Newitz|April 28, 2021|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.
How technology helped archaeologists dig deeper|Annalee Newitz|April 28, 2021|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.
The great urban tech reset|Michael Reilly|April 28, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Angkor was a sophisticated city with hundreds of thousands of residents—until its collapse.
The Pandemic Remade Every Corner of Society. Now It's the Climate's Turn|Justin Worland|April 15, 2021|Time

A prime example is the city of Angkor, the capital of the Khmer Empire in Cambodia from the 9th to 15th centuries.
How Climate Change May Be Contributing to Our Political Instability|Justin Worland|September 15, 2020|Time
The Temple of Angkor had 1,532 columns, and the stone for the structure was brought from a quarry thirty-two miles distant.
Four Young Explorers|Oliver Optic
The reliefs in the great corridors of Angkor are purely decorative.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 (of 3)|Charles Eliot
At Angkor there are several such structures built of large blocks of hewn stone.
The American Egypt|Channing Arnold
Ruined city, near which are ruins of Angkor-Vat, a famous Cambodian temple.
A Literary and Historical Atlas of Asia|J. G. Bartholomew
Some of these Guatemala structures show a quite extraordinary resemblance to those at Angkor in Cambodia.
Ranching, Sport and Travel|Thomas Carson

British Dictionary definitions for Angkor

Angkor

/ (ˈæŋkɔː) /

noun

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

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