pantheon

Noun

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
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]

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