Definitions for pantheons

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pantheons Pan·the·on

Spelling: [pan-thee-on, -uh n or, esp. British, pan-thee-

IPA: /ˈpæn θiˌɒn, -ən or, esp. British, pænˈθi ən/

Pantheons is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 550 anagrams from letters in pantheons (aehnnopst).

Definitions for pantheons

noun

1. a domed circular temple at Rome, erected a.d. 120–124 by Hadrian, used as a church since a.d.
2. (lowercase) a public building containing tombs or memorials of the illustrious dead of a nation.
3. (lowercase) the place of the heroes or idols of any group, individual, movement, party, etc., or the heroes or idols themselves:
4. (lowercase) a temple dedicated to all the gods.
5. (lowercase) the gods of a particular mythology considered collectively.
6. a national monument in Paris, France, used as a sepulcher for eminent French persons, begun in 1764 by Soufflot as the church of Ste. Geneviève and secularized in 1885.

Origin of pantheons

1375-1425; late Middle English panteon Latin Panthēon Greek Pántheion, noun use of neuter of pántheios of all gods, equivalent to pan- pan- + the(ós) god + -ios adj. s

Examples for pantheons

The Pantheon of the north, as we have seen, was derived from the south.

The Pantheon of Sediuk pranks ranges from sneakily clever to blatantly rude.

One of these was the Pantheon, a temple which was afterward a Christian church.

It would be just like the Pantheon, he thought, to pull a lousy trick like that.

Biological variation was celebrated in the Pantheon of the gods.

William Henry Cosby occupies a permanent place in the American Pantheon.

The legitimate Gods in his Pantheon are always in the wrong.

Carrara marble has been quarried as far back as Roman times and was used by emperors for massive monuments like the Rome Pantheon.

Nader has a Pantheon of convergers—as he calls those ready to cross an aisle to reach a compromise.

The Pantheon is the finest example of a domed hall which we have left.