喜樂美語
  1. 1萬神殿；(比喻)群英殿堂/名人堂

    A pantheon was originally a temple built to honor all the gods of a religion — ancient Rome had a famous building called the Pantheon. Today, the word is used more often in a looser way, for a group of the most famous or respected people or things in some area, like 'the pantheon of great musicians'.

From the word’s history

From the Pantheon, a Roman temple to the gods, c. 1300.

來自羅馬的萬神殿 Pantheon，一座供奉眾神的神廟。

Wiktionary

組成from Greek 'pan-' (all) + 'theos' (god) — 'all gods'.

同家族的字

  • pandemicshares the Greek 'pan-', meaning 'all'
  • theologyshares the Greek 'theos', meaning 'god'

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

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Pantheonname

  • 1

    The circular Roman temple dedicated to all the gods in 27 BCE in Rome, rebuilt c. 125 CE and later consecrated as a church.

pantheonnoun/ˈpænθiən/

  • 1

    lifestylereligionA temple dedicated to all the gods.

  • 2

    human-sciencesmysticismmythologyAll the gods of a particular people or religion, particularly the ancient Greek gods residing on Olympus, considered as a group.

    • Every act of a Roman, from birth to death, from dawn to night, was controlled and supervised by some presiding deity. Man was thus virtually a symbolic puppet in the hands of the Roman pantheon.
  • 3

    A category or classification denoting the most honored persons of a group.

    • Usain Bolt seals his place in the pantheon with stunning fifth gold
    • Mahomes, Kelce, head coach Andy Reid and other key contributors to the Chiefs’ recent run can now put themselves alongside NFL legends in the pantheon of the sport’s greatest.

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