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1. (n.) pantheon
a public building containing tombs or memorials of the illustrious dead of a nation.
2. pantheon
the realm of the heroes or idols of any group, movement, etc.:
a place in the pantheon of American literature.
3. pantheon
a temple dedicated to all the gods.
4. pantheon
the gods of a particular mythology considered collectively.
5. pantheon
(cap.) a domed circular temple in Rome, completed a.d. 120–124 by Hadrian, used as a church since a.d. 609.
Etymology: (1375–1425; late ME panteon < L Panthēon < Gk Pántheion, n. use of neut. of pántheios of all gods)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) pantheon
all the gods of a religion
2. (noun) pantheon
a monument commemorating a nation's dead heroes
3. (noun) pantheon
(antiquity) a temple to all the gods
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) pantheon
a temple dedicated to all the gods; especially, the building so called at Rome
2. (noun) pantheon
the collective gods of a people, or a work treating of them; as, a divinity of the Greek pantheon
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. pantheon
a temple in Rome, first erected by Agrippa, son-in-law of Augustus, circular in form, 150 ft. in height, with niches all round for statues of the gods, to whom in general it was dedicated; it is now a church, and affords sepulture to illustrious men. Also a building in Paris, originally intended to be a church in honour of the patron saint of Paris, but at the time of the Revolution converted into a receptacle for the ashes of the illustrious dead, Mirabeau being its first occupant, and bearing this inscription, Aux grands hommes la patrie reconnaissant; it was subsequently appropriated to other uses, but under the third republic it became again a resting-place for the ashes of eminent men.
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