Angkor Wat

Also Angkor Vat

[waht, vaht]

noun

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

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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

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He took the first known photographs of the temple of Angkor Wat, in the country known today as Cambodia.

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It contains the ruins of Khmer Empire capitals from the 9th to 15th centuries, including the temple of Angkor Wat.

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