Pantheon

Word PANTHEON
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Hyphenation pan the on
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Definitions and meanings of "Pantheon"

What do we mean by pantheon?

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. 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. 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. noun

A temple dedicated to all the gods noun

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 most honored persons of a group noun

All the gods of a religion noun

(antiquity) a temple to all the gods noun

A monument commemorating a nation's dead heroes noun

A temple dedicated to all the gods.

All the gods of a particular people or religion, particularly the ancient Greek gods residing on Olympus, considered as a group.

(by extension) A category or classification denoting the most honored persons of a group.

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The word "pantheon" in example sentences

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. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Conversely, the other advantage to a pantheon is that it bestows distance when you are going into God territory. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Protests over plan to bury President in Polish pantheon ❋ Unknown (2010)

Enterprise Conent Management still has a place in the acronym pantheon, but that place is an increasingly limited one ... ❋ Unknown (2010)

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," where your pantheon is our pantheon! ❋ Anne Johnson (2007)

Among the Hatti proper -- that is, the broad-headed military aristocracy -- the chief deity of the pantheon was the Great Father, the creator, "the lord of Heaven", the Baal. ❋ Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1904)

Natural and indeed inevitable as this conclusion was, the scientific theory in the Euphrates Valley was presumably influenced to some extent by the circumstance that the head of the pantheon was a solar deity. ❋ Morris Jastrow (1891)

The hymn may be older than Hammurabi, who, perhaps, is quoting or copying it, and since the Bel who is here at the head of the pantheon is the god of Nippur, the hymn may originally have belonged to the ritual of that place. ❋ Morris Jastrow (1891)

But for the theologians of Babylon, the position of Marduk as the head of the pantheon was a much more important factor. ❋ Morris Jastrow (1891)

_ The Roman pantheon (if the Italian divine community can properly be called a pantheon) had not the fullness and fineness of the ❋ Crawford Howell Toy (1877)

Located just a stones throw away from where I live in Washington, D.C., Deathfest had a ridiculous line-up spanning the metal pantheon, which is why metalheads from around the world over descended upon Baltimore's Sonar compound for America's most diverse and tightly curated metal festival. ❋ Unknown (2011)

One reason is that, in Mesoamerican religion, the number of deities in a "pantheon" can sometimes be reduced to a single deity or concept in which the apparently separate deities are simply manifestations or aspects of the central deity or concept of divinity. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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