Historical Context and Modern Usage

It's the Word of the dayay for june twenty fourth upp for this podcast comes from Progressive, America's number one motorcycle insurer Did you know writers who switch and save with prorogressive save nearly two hundred dollars per year That's a whole new pair of writing gloves and more. quote today Progressive casualty Insurance Company and affiliates, National average twelve month savings of one hundred and ninety seven dollars by new customers surveyed who save with prorogressive between october twenty twenty four and september twenty twenty five Potential savings will vary Today's word is Pantheon, spepelled P A N T H E O N. Pantheon is a noun It usually refers to a group of famous or notable people or things It also refers to the officially recognized gods of a particular people as well as to the Roman pantheon, the domed temple begun in twenty seven BC, and rebuilt Around one hundred eighteen to one hundred and twenty eight AD Here's the word used in a sentence from Vanity Fair from cheeky shots of celebrities like Jane Fnda and Arnold Schwarzenegger to extravagant sensual portfolios of America's Olympic squads, The magazine's Pantheon of Photographers have helped to define the genre of sports portraiture Some of the earliest uses of the word pantheon in the English language refer to the most famous pantheon, the circular domed temple built in Rome more than nineteen centuries ago. and still standing We can easily identify the origins of the temple's name, which the Romans borrowed from the Greek word for a temple honoring all their gods Greek word Penttheon combines Pan, meaning all and Theos, meaning God. In today's English, Pantheon often refers to all the gods of a particular people. as in the Egyptian pantheon. a sense that arose in the sixteenth century, but was rarely used until the nineteenth century