Pandora meaning
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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Pandora, the first mortal woman according to Greek mythology, who opened a box containing all the bad things that could happen to humans and let them out.
An example of Pandora is the woman who released evil into the world.
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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)
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Origin of pandora
- Greek Pandōrā having all gifts pan- pan- dōron gift dō- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Ancient Greek ΠανδώÏα (Pandṓra), "all gifts".
From Wiktionary