pantechnicon

Syllables: pan·tech·ni·con/pænˈtɛknɪkən/US/pænˈtɛknək(ə)n/

pantechnicon noun: a building or place housing shops or stalls where all sorts of (especially exotic) manufactured articles are collected for sale.

Noun

pantechnicon (plural pantechnicons or pantechnica)

(UK) A building or place housing shops or stalls where all sorts of (especially exotic) manufactured articles are collected for sale.
- It is plain, that such writers do not rise to the very idea of a University. They consider it a sort of bazaar, or pantechnicon, in which wares of all kinds are heaped together for sale in stalls independent of each other; and that, to save the purchasers the trouble of running about from shop to...1852, John Henry Newman, “Discourse V. General Knowledge Viewed as One Philosophy.”, in Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education. Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin, Dublin: James...
- To-day will the mighty cobweb-dome receive its last survey, previous to the contractors for the building handing it over to the painters and decorators. When these have accomplished their task, then will the walls and counters begin to receive their varied and valuable stores of natural and...1854, “The New Crystal Palace”, in The Practical Mechanic’s Journal, volume VI, London: […] [F]or the Proprietors by George Hebert, […], pages 225–226
(UK) Originally pantechnicon van: a van, especially a large moving or removal van.
- For we do not employ battleships as convoys, nor even as pantechnica conveying landing parties.1899 October 28, The Outlook: A Weekly Review of Politics, Art, Literature and Finance, page 400
- The pantechnicon was running away. It had perceived the wrath to come and was fleeing. Its guardians had evidently left it imperfectly scotched or braked, and it had got loose. […] [T]he onrush of the pantechnicon constituted a clear crisis. Lower down the gradient of Brougham Street was more...1911, Arnold Bennett, The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns, London: Methuen Publishing, OCLC 492063506; republished Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, 1910s, OCLC 225424669, page 69

pantechnicon meaning in Kannada

pantechnicon in Kannada

ಪೀಠೋಪಕರಣಗಳ ದೊಡ್ಡ ಗಾಡಿ, ವಾಹನ, ಪೀಠೋಪಕರಣಗಳ ಗಡಂಗು, ಉಗ್ರಾಣ, ಗೋದಾಮು, ಮಳಿಗೆ

Examples of pantechnicon in a sentence

Its guardians had evidently left it imperfectly scotched or braked, and it had got loose. […] [T]he onrush of the pantechnicon constituted a clear crisis.1911, Arnold Bennett, The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns, London: Methuen Publishing, OCLC 492063506; republished Toronto...
No man would seek to climb Mount Everest with a pantechnicon of lumber weighing him down.1972, William Barclay, “The Race and the Goal”, in The Letter to the Hebrews (The Daily Study Bible Series), rev. edition, Louisville, Ky....
In fact, as they later found, the auxiliary vehicle was a very large removers' van – the kind known as a pantechnicon.1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia: Or Buried Alive: A Novel, London: Faber and Faber; republished in The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia...
I later established that the R12 [Renault 12] and pantechnicon had both been driving in the direction of the roadblock, the R12 behind the pantechnicon.2008, Anthony Trethowan, “Wendy Atkinson”, in Delta Scout: Ground Coverage Operator, Johannesburg: 30° South Publishers, →ISBN, page 30:

Synonyms of pantechnicon

Forms of pantechnicon

plural	pantechnicons
plural	pantechnica

Origin of pantechnicon

From Pantechnicon, a 19th-century firm which owned a building with a Greek-style facade of Doric columns in Motcomb Street, Belgrave Square, London, UK, with a picture gallery, a furniture shop, a shop selling carriages, and a warehouse for storing customers’ furniture and other items. The firm used large horse-drawn vans to collect and deliver their customers' property, which came to be known as Pantechnicon vans. The word was coined by the firm from pan- (“all”) (from Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân), neuter form of πᾶς (pâs, “all, every”)) + τεχνικόν (tekhnikón), neuter singular of τεχνικός (tekhnikós, “technical”).

Words formed from pantechnicon

pantech
pantech van

Questions about pantechnicon

What does pantechnicon mean?: Pantechnicon means a building or place housing shops or stalls where all sorts of (especially exotic) manufactured articles are collected for sale.
What is pantechnicon in Kannada?: Pantechnicon in Kannada is ಪೀಠೋಪಕರಣಗಳ ದೊಡ್ಡ ಗಾಡಿ, ವಾಹನ, ಪೀಠೋಪಕರಣಗಳ ಗಡಂಗು. See Pantechnicon meaning in Kannada.
How do you use pantechnicon in a sentence?: Its guardians had evidently left it imperfectly scotched or braked, and it had got loose. […] [T]he onrush of the pantechnicon constituted a clear crisis.
What part of speech is pantechnicon?: Pantechnicon is a noun.
How do you pronounce pantechnicon?: Pantechnicon is pronounced /pænˈtɛknɪkən/ (UK).
What is the plural of pantechnicon?: The plural of pantechnicon is pantechnicons.

Words near pantechnicon in the dictionary

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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