wat
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of wat
1870–75; < Thai < Sanskrit vāṭa enclosure
Example Sentences
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But he was confident tourists would return to Angkor Wat after the fighting ceased.
From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025
Pam Evagee and Ta Sanalak are volunteer teachers at Wat Thai temple who coordinate Thai-language lessons and cultural programs to foster communication and understanding between family members.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025
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 • Oct. 8, 2025
He took the first known photographs of the temple of Angkor Wat, in the country known today as Cambodia.
From BBC • Aug. 7, 2024
“He is probably loopy like Wat, and does not know what he is at Let’s go on and leave the old fool.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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