Meaning & use
pantheon
All the gods of a particular religion or mythology considered as a group, or a group of especially famous or respected people.
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Zeus and Hera are among the major gods in the Greek pantheon.
She is now regarded as part of the pantheon of great twentieth-century novelists.
A note on using this word
Pantheon can refer literally to a set of deities or figuratively to an elite group of celebrated figures in any field.
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