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 • Dec. 24, 2025

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 • Oct. 8, 2025

The brand new Chinese-built airport terminal at Siem Reap, gateway to the famed temple complex of Angkor Wat, is deserted.

From BBC • Sep. 7, 2025

And it makes me wonder: How will future archaeologists interpret our contemporary relationship with Stonehenge, Egypt’s pyramids, Cahokia, Angkor Wat, and other ancient monuments?

From Science Magazine • Dec. 29, 2023

Covering more than twenty-five miles of temples, Angkor Wat was built by powerful Khmer kings as monuments of self-glorification in the ninth century and completed three hundred years later.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung