pantheon

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun all the gods of a religion
  2. noun a monument commemorating a nation's dead heroes
  3. noun (antiquity) a temple to all the gods

Etymology

From Pantheon (“a Roman temple to the gods later used as a church”), c. 1300.

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