(n.) A temple dedicated to all the gods; especially, the building so called at Rome.
(n.) The collective gods of a people, or a work treating of them; as, a divinity of the Greek pantheon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The MPC likely will place much more weight at next week’s meeting on the weak official data for the first quarter than on April’s better PMIs, and we expect Kristin Forbes to remain alone in voting to raise interest rates,” said Samuel Tombs, the chief UK economist at the consultancy Pantheon Macroeconomics.
(2) Sadly there's a distinct lack of bushy facial features on show in Germany this summer, although should Gennaro Gattuso steer clear of a razor and Italy go all the way, then he'll surely be eligible to join Batista in the pantheon of hirsute legends.
(3) No place for Suarez in the Uruguayan World Cup pantheon alongside Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Alcides Ghiggia and Obdulio Varela (who would have dealt with Giorgio Chiellini by giving him a sharp clip around the ear, and got away with it too, but that's another story).
(4) In the pantheon of this comedian's attacks on Thatcher, it was a retort that probably won't be treasured longer than the best lines from The Young Ones.
(5) Few figures in the pantheon of the NSW barristers’ trade union are more saintly than Sir Garfield Barwick.
(6) (Cripps, chancellor in the final period of the Attlee government, was a symbol of austerity in the Labour pantheon).
(7) In the pantheon of American poets, Woody belongs midway between Walt Whitman and Bob Dylan , but it is his roots in Oklahoma that give his work an authentic voice, ringing out from the dusty midwestern plains: a welcome antidote to the easy jibe that, if you're poor and white in this part of the world, you're bound to be a redneck.
(8) It's hard to say why Felt and Denim never enjoyed the success of many of their peers, or why Go Kart Mozart haven't been included in the pantheon of XL-approved heritage acts.
(9) I got a whole pantheon of Sally Field references in here,” he grins, tapping his head, a reference to the hysterically anti-Iranian 1991 film.
(10) There is very small pantheon of great reforming education secretaries who have genuinely created change.
(11) In some quarters, the reception has been so adulatory that you could have been fooled into thinking that he had won himself a place alongside Abraham Lincoln in the pantheon of great orators and the Gettysburg Address now had a rival in the Bloomberg Speech.
(12) Other surveys pointed to continued recession, said Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at the consultancy Pantheon Macroeconomics.
(13) She said the other major site under threat from the militants was Ashur, a Unesco world heritage site on the banks of the Tigris not far from Mosul , named after the chief god of the Assyrian pantheon.
(14) Perhaps greater regulation of the food industry, with its love of marketing at children with a pantheon of quite horrible cartoon characters and its happy facilitation of access to sugars and fats in inappropriate places, would help?
(15) However grudging the judgment sounds it will stick to him in the pantheon.
(16) Losses look inevitable, and a pantheon of psephologists predict 150, 190, more,” said the BBC’s deputy political editor, John Pienaar just 24 hours ago.
(17) In between winning three Oscars , having four children, keeping bees and studying music, Murch recently investigated new links between the architecture of the Pantheon, the work of Copernicus and the origins of heliocentrism in western astronomy.
(18) 1991 Graduates with a master of laws and a master of advanced studies in criminal law from Pantheon-Assas University in Paris, France's leading law school.
(19) For all his achievement and worth, I don't think Perry Anderson quite fits in the pantheon the obituary suggests.
(20) This is the prize all physicists want , a chance to be remembered in the same pantheon as Max Planck , Richard Feynman , Niels Bohr , Marie Curie , Werner Heisenberg and, of course, Albert Einstein .
Temple
Definition:
(n.) A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
(n.) The space, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.
(n.) One of the side bars of a pair of spectacles, jointed to the bows, and passing one on either side of the head to hold the spectacles in place.
(n.) A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India.
(n.) The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah.
(n.) Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church.
(n.) Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides.
(v. t.) To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god.
Example Sentences:
(1) He had been shot once in the right temple, once in the right side of his chest, once in the back and once in the hip.
(2) We have Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris coming to those platforms this December, and Tomb Raider: The Definitive Edition is available on PS4.” However, there is still some slight ambiguity about whether the deal is for Winter 2015 only.
(3) Part of the initial work has involved London Underground strengthening the structure of Temple tube station by the Thames so the north end of the bridge could sit on top of it.
(4) Two cases involving deadly bullet shots to the head are reported (entry wounds at the right temple, shots fired at absolutely close range, 7.65 or 9 mm caliber).
(5) In his passport photograph, applied for in June 2008, Brown has grown a beard and his temples have gone grey.
(6) With sales of tablets, smartphones and gadgets predicted to soar this Christmas , many British households will soon be temples to the latest technology.
(7) At a press conference held outside the temple on Sunday, Oak Creek police chief John Edwards said the "heroic actions" of the two officers "stopped this from being worse than it could have been", noting that many people had gathered for worship at the time of the attack.
(8) He has served as the director of Temple University's family practice review course, as a longstanding consultant to the Residency Assistance Program, and in various capacities on the boards of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and the STFM Foundation.
(9) Nine cases identified as acinic cell adenocarcinoma of minor salivary glands from the files of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the Department of Pathology, Temple University School of Dentistry were studied to determine the clinical and histomorphologic parameters of this lesion.
(10) Page, an army veteran whose record was marred by drunkenness and a failure to report for duty, walked into the temple just before 10.30am and opened fire with a 9mm pistol.
(11) The sunflowers are the brainchild of Kouyuu Abe, a Zen monk who owns a temple just outside Fukushima city and is committed to the "fight against radiation".
(12) I can state in no uncertain terms and on behalf of the government of Israel that my country is not seeking to change the status quo regarding the Temple Mount.
(13) The Snowman and the Snowdog Game Channel 4 commissioned this endless-runner game in the style of Temple Run for its Snowman sequel.
(14) This is the temple complex of the Ness of Brodgar, and its size, complexity and sophistication have left archaeologists desperately struggling to find superlatives to describe the wonders they found there.
(15) The fear that Israel was planning to alter the status of the holy place Arabs call Al-Haram Al-Sharif and the Jews the Temple Mount set off the violence.
(16) Earlier this month, the church opened its latest temple in the UK, inside a former cinema in Leicester.
(17) It’s a great tragedy.” All Yazidi celebrations, such as weddings and the party-like annual pilgrimage to their sacred temple, Lalish, have been put on hold.
(18) The trip is a contrast in streetscapes: the former is best known for the Rainbow Bridge and the space-age headquarters of Fuji TV, the latter a wonderfully disorderly collection of narrow streets, old buildings and Sensoji Temple , instantly recognisable by the huge akachochin red lantern marking its entrance.
(19) It has been twinned with London’s St Pancras Old church – close to the St Pancras Eurostar terminal – since 2007 • 5 rue de Belzunce, paroissesvp.fr Secrets Temple Ganesh Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy At the north end of the Gare du Nord, just past the elevated metro line, is a colourful Hindu temple dedicated to the god Ganesh.
(20) I too was attracted to the paintings of De Chirico and Delvaux, with their dreamplaces – empty, melancholy cities, abandoned temples, broken statues, shadows, exaggerated perspectives.