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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
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Word Origin & History

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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