a domed circular temple at Rome, erected a.d. 120–124 by Hadrian, used as a church since a.d.
(lowercase) a public building containing tombs or memorials of the illustrious dead of a nation.
(lowercase) 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.
(lowercase) a temple dedicated to all the gods.
(lowercase) the gods of a particular mythology considered collectively.
(esp in ancient Greece or Rome) a temple to all the gods
all the gods collectively of a religion
a monument or building commemorating a nation's dead heroes
1375–1425; late Middle English panteon < Latin Panthēon < Greek Pántheion, noun use of neuter of pántheios of all gods, equivalent to pan- pan- + the ( ós ) god + -ios adj. suffix
In the pantheon of great movie stars, Marilyn Monroe might well be considered the brightest of them all. The actual Pantheon was a temple built by the Romans — but we use it to mean any group of exalted figures. To place someone in a pantheon is to decide that they belong to a "club" whose members are all only the greatest people to have done the same thing. It's like a little temple of little gods. Tiger Woods, for example, definitely belongs in the pantheon of great golfers –– alongside Palmer, Nicklaus and Singh. If you want to see the real Pantheon, that is the building itself with the world's oldest concrete dome, then you'll have to go to Rome.
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Samuel Tombs, chief U.S. economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, calculates that higher gasoline prices will likely only add roughly 0.3 percentage points to headline sales in the April data.
From Barron's • May 13, 2026
But Samuel Tombs, chief US economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said job growth was likely to start to slow in the coming months.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
This is why I am in Croatia to announce Project Pantheon: a next-generation 1-gigawatt data-center campus on 310 acres.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
“Inflation is headed for 3%, and it will stay close to this level for a while,” Claus Vistesen, chief eurozone economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said in a note to clients.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
They walk to the Pantheon, or to a flower market, or along the Seine.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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