PANTHEON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pantheon mean? 

• PANTHEON (noun)
  The noun PANTHEON has 3 senses:

1. all the gods of a religion

2. a monument commemorating a nation's dead heroes

3. (antiquity) a temple to all the gods

  Familiarity information: PANTHEON used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PANTHEON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

All the gods of a religion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("pantheon" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Meronyms (members of "pantheon"):

deity; divinity; god; immortal (any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A monument commemorating a nation's dead heroes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pantheon" is a kind of...):

memorial; monument (a structure erected to commemorate persons or events)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(antiquity) a temple to all the gods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pantheon" is a kind of...):

temple (place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity)

Domain category:

antiquity (the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe)

Domain region:

Ellas; Greece; Hellenic Republic (a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil)

capital of Italy; Eternal City; Italian capital; Roma; Rome (capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire)

 Context examples 

The white-skinned, fair-haired savages who created that terrible pantheon were of the same fibre as he.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)