pan|the|on

pan|the|on
Pan|the|on «PAN thee on, pan THEE uhn», noun.
1. a temple for all the gods, built at Rome about 27 B.C. It was rebuilt by Hadrian about A.D. 125 and used as a Christian church between the early 600's and 1885.
2. a building resembling or compared to the Pantheon at Rome, especially a large public building in Paris containing tombs or memorials of famous French people.
╂[< Latin Pantheon < Greek Pántheion < pan- all + theós god + -ion place for]
pan|the|on «PAN thee on, pan THEE uhn», noun.
1. a temple dedicated to all the gods.
2. a public building containing tombs or memorials of the illustrious dead of a nation.
3. all the deities of a people, country, or culture: »

the ancient Greek pantheon.

4. Figurative. any group of exalted persons or things: »

In the literary pantheon of that decade, the names that most commonly come to mind are Fitzgerald and Hemingway (Atlantic). The teeming pantheon of guided missiles (Time).

╂[< Pantheon]

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