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Pan·the·on

   [pan-thee-on, -uhn or, especially Brit., pan-thee-uhn]
noun
1.
a domed circular temple at Rome, erected a.d. 120–124 by Hadrian, used as a church since a.d. 609.
2.
(lowercase) a public building containing tombs or memorials of the illustrious dead of a nation.
3.
(lowercase) the place of the heroes or idols of any group, individual, movement, party, etc., or the heroes or idols themselves: to earn a place in the pantheon of American literature.
4.
(lowercase) a temple dedicated to all the gods.
5.
(lowercase) the gods of a particular mythology considered collectively.
Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English panteon < Latin Panthēon < Greek Pántheion, noun use of neuter of pántheios of all gods, equivalent to pan- pan- + the(ós) god + -ios adj. suffix

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pan·the·on·ic, adjective

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Pan·thé·on

   [pahn-tey-awn]
noun
a national monument in Paris, France, used as a sepulcher for eminent French persons, begun in 1764 by Soufflot as the church of Ste. Geneviève and secularized in 1885.
Also called Panthéon Fran·çais  [frahn-se] .
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pantheon (pænˈθiːən, ˈpænθɪən)
 
—n
1.  (esp in ancient Greece or Rome) a temple to all the gods
2.  all the gods collectively of a religion
3.  a monument or building commemorating a nation's dead heroes
 
[C14: via Latin from Greek Pantheion, from pan- + -theios divine, from theos god]

Pantheon (pænˈθiːən, ˈpænθɪən)
 
—n
a circular temple in Rome dedicated to all the gods, built by Agrippa in 27 bc, rebuilt by Hadrian 120--24 ad, and used since 609 ad as a Christian church

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pantheon
c.1300, from Pantheon, temple for all the gods, built in Rome c.25 B.C.E. by Agrippa (since 609 C.E. made into the Christian church of Santa Maria Rotonda), from Gk. Pantheion (hieron) "(shrine) of all the gods," from pantheion, neut. of pantheios, from pan- "all" + theios "of or for the gods," from
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theos "god" (see Thea). Sense of any group of exalted persons is first found 1596.
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