wats
- n a telephone line; long distance service at fixed rates for fixed zones; an acronym for wide area telephone service
- The long lunches, the French-colonial streets, the wats and murmuring monks: it all comes back with exquisite precision.
- No trip to Bangkok is complete without a tour of the city's opulent wats, or Buddhist temples.
- He noted how the serenity of the Buddhist wats contrasted with the stench of the city's slums and the bursts of automatic gunfire.