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Definition of pantheon - 5 dictionary results

Pan⋅the⋅on

  [pan-thee-on, -uhn or, especially Brit., pan-thee-uhn]
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–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 ME panteon < L Panthēon < Gk Pántheion, n. use of neut. of pántheios of all gods, equiv. to pan- pan- + the(ós) god + -ios adj. suffix

Related forms:
pan⋅the⋅on⋅ic, adjective

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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pan·the·on   (pān'thē-ŏn', -ən)   
n.  
  1. Pantheon A circular temple in Rome, completed in 27 B.C. and dedicated to all the gods.
  2. A temple dedicated to all gods.
  3. All the gods of a people considered as a group: Jupiter is head of the Roman pantheon.
  4. A public building commemorating and dedicated to the heroes and heroines of a nation.
  5. A group of persons most highly regarded for contributions to a field or endeavor: the pantheon of modern physics.

[Middle English Panteon, Pantheon, from Latin Panthēum, Panthēon, from Greek Pantheion, shrine of all the gods, from neuter sing. of pantheios, of all the gods : pan-, pan- + theos, god; see dhēs- in Indo-European roots.]
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Pantheon

Pan*the"on\, n. [L. pantheon, pantheum, Gr. ? (sc. ?), fr. ? of all gods; ?, ?, all + ? a god: cf. F. panth['e]on. See Pan-, and Theism.]

1. A temple dedicated to all the gods; especially, the building so called at Rome.

2. The collective gods of a people, or a work treating of them; as, a divinity of the Greek pantheon.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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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 theos "god" (see Thea). Sense of any group of exalted persons is first found 1596.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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