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.
2. The collective gods of a people, or a work treating of them; as, a divinity of the Greek pantheon.
It still remains to be seen where ER should stand in the pantheon of feminist heroines.
He's the last of the great musical comedy composers, a pantheon that once included George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter and Richard Rodgers.
Mahashivaratri day is celebrated as the birthday of Lord Shiva, one of the three major gods in the Hindu pantheon.
To order the pantheon of presidents, the survey asked: "Who do you think was the greatest American president?"
Colorful buses, their cabins dedicated to any one of a pantheon of Hindu gods, also move millions a day.
"The things he's about are obsession and human perfectablity, which makes him unique among the pantheon of superheroes," O'Neill said. "It's about urban fears.
The four, chosen out of about one thousand nominees, will join the 42 women already in the feminist pantheon, according to Sally Parr, executive director.
Instead, he said, the government had accepted at "face value" the statements of a "pantheon of known liars and convicted felons, all desperate to save their skins."
While playing down the Gorbachev speech, Cuba's government-controlled television provided full coverage of remarks last month by Pik Botha, South Africa's foreign minister and normally the leading villain in Cuba's pantheon of enemies.
Lefty Frizzell and Bob Wills need not make room for Strait in the pantheon of country music.
They will be picking people who are not the best for the job.' Amid the grey-suited pantheon of management greats, Nicolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) holds an unlikely, but undeniable, place.