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

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

You’ll need at least three days to even get a sense of the scale of Angkor Wat, but it will be something you’ll never forget.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 1, 2024

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

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