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Pantheon - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Pantheon : (noun)
1: all the gods of a religion
2: a monument commemorating a nation's dead heroes
3: (antiquity) a temple to all the gods
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Pantheon : \Pan*the"on\, n. [L. pantheon, pantheum, Gr. ? (sc. ?),
fr. ? of all gods; ?, ?, all _ ? a god: cf. F. panth['e]on.
See Pan-, and Theism.]
1. A temple dedicated to all the gods; especially, the
building so called at Rome.
2. The collective gods of a people, or a work treating of
them; as, a divinity of the Greek pantheon.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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