Search Result for "pantheon":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (3)
1. all the gods of a religion;
2. a monument commemorating a nation's dead heroes;
3. (antiquity) a temple to all the gods;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pantheon \Pan*the"on\, n. [L. pantheon, pantheum, Gr. pa`nqeion (sc. 'iero`n), fr. pa`nqeios of all gods; pa^s, pa^n, all + qe`os 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. [1913 Webster] 2. The collective gods of a people, or a work treating of them; as, a divinity of the Greek pantheon. [1913 Webster]
