Angkor Wat

American  

[waht, vaht] / wɑt, vɑt /

Also Angkor Vat

noun

1. the largest and best preserved Khmer temple in the Angkor complex of ruins.

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Example Sentences

But he is hopeful tourists will return to the Angkor archaeological park -- home to scores of temple ruins from the Khmer Empire, including the Bayon Temple and top attraction, Angkor Wat.

From Barron's

Outside Angkor Wat, tuk-tuk driver Nov Mao said his income had halved since the clashes began.

From Barron's

But he was confident tourists would return to Angkor Wat after the fighting ceased.

From Barron's

I meet Sothea on a hot and sticky afternoon this summer, in Siem Reap, a town close to Angkor Wat and the other monuments that first drew Johnson to Cambodia.

From The Wall Street Journal

But by the time the 51-year-old Johnson traveled to Cambodia in 2002 to explore Angkor Wat and other remnants of the Khmer Empire, she was living through a series of disappointments, romantic and otherwise.

From The Wall Street Journal