Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A circular temple in Rome, completed around AD 125 and dedicated to all the gods.
- noun A temple dedicated to all gods.
- noun All the gods of a people considered as a group.
- noun A public building commemorating and dedicated to the heroes of a nation.
- noun A group of persons most highly regarded for contributions to a field or endeavor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A temple or shrine dedicated to all the gods.
- noun All the divinities, collectively, worshiped by a people: as, one of the divinities of the Greek pantheon.
- noun [capitalized] A work treating of the whole body of divinities of a people: as, Tooke's “Pantheon.”
- noun [capitalized] A memorial structure in honor of the great men of a people, or filling some such purpose; especially, such a building serving as a mausoleum, as the Pantheon (church of Ste. Geneviève) in Paris. Westminster Abbey is often called the Panthcon of the British.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A temple dedicated to all the gods; especially, the building so called at Rome.
- noun The collective gods of a people, or a work treating of them.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
temple dedicated to all thegods - noun mythology all the gods of a particular people or religion, particularly the ancient Greek gods residing on
Olympus , considered as a group - noun a
category or classification denoting the mosthonored persons of a group
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun all the gods of a religion
- noun (antiquity) a temple to all the gods
- noun a monument commemorating a nation's dead heroes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I wasn't expecting an upset, but back in my undergrad days, I would have guessed at least a 70-30 split — the pantheon is a harsh mistress.
Archive 2007-08-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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I wasn't expecting an upset, but back in my undergrad days, I would have guessed at least a 70-30 split — the pantheon is a harsh mistress.
Gold stars and red pen Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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If your pantheon is more complex, say you have two competing factions of deities, laid over an older, animist pattern, that tells you a lot about the social evolution of the society: maybe not-Buddhism came along and supplanted not-Shinto.
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Conversely, the other advantage to a pantheon is that it bestows distance when you are going into God territory.
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Protests over plan to bury President in Polish pantheon
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Enterprise Conent Management still has a place in the acronym pantheon, but that place is an increasingly limited one ...
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Protests over plan to bury President in Polish pantheon
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Enterprise Conent Management still has a place in the acronym pantheon, but that place is an increasingly limited one ...
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Protests over plan to bury President in Polish pantheon
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Protests over plan to bury President in Polish pantheon
brtom commented on the word pantheon
She reigns
in eventual pantheons
of book store cahiers ...
Raymond Farr, in As/Is
December 21, 2006
r2k_44 commented on the word pantheon
1st
August 12, 2020