Pantheon: Meaning and Definition of

Pan•the•on

1. a domed circular temple at Rome, erected a.d.120–124 by Hadrian, used as a church since a.d.609.
2. (l.c.) a public building containing tombs or memorials of the illustrious dead of a nation.
3. (l.c.) the place of the heroes or idols of any group, individual, movement, party, etc., or the heroes or idols themselves: to earn a place in the pantheon of American literature.
4. (l.c.) a temple dedicated to all the gods.
5. (l.c.) the gods of a particular mythology considered collectively.

Pan•thé•on

1. 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. Also called