pandora

Definition of Pandora in English :

Noun

1. pandora

(Greek mythology) the first woman; created by Hephaestus on orders from Zeus who presented her to Epimetheus along with a box filled with evils

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Pandora

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noun

Greek mythology

the first woman, made out of earth as the gods' revenge on man for obtaining fire from Prometheus. Given a box (Pandora's box) that she was forbidden to open, she disobeyed out of curiosity and released from it all the ills that beset man, leaving only hope within

noun

1.

a handsome red sea bream, Pagellus erythrinus, of European coastal waters, caught for food in the Mediterranean

2.

a marine bivalve mollusc of the genus Pandora that lives on the surface of sandy shores and has thin equal valves

Pandora

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noun

Greek Mythology

the first mortal woman: out of curiosity she opens a box, letting out all human ills into the world (or, in a later version, letting all human blessings escape and be lost, leaving only hope)

noun

bandore

: also panˈdore (pænˈdɔr ; pandôrˈ)

Pandora

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n.
Greek Mythology

The first woman, bestowed upon humankind as a punishment for Prometheus's theft of fire. Entrusted with a box containing all the ills that could plague people, she opened it out of curiosity and thereby released all the evils of human life.

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