Pandora Definition

păn-dôrə
noun

Bandore.

Webster's New World
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)
Webster's New World
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.
YourDictionary

Any fish of the genus Pagellus.

Wiktionary
pronoun

(Greek mythology) The first woman on earth, who had been given a box by the gods and instructed not to open it, but who disobeyed the instructions out of curiosity, releasing all manner of evils into the world.

Wiktionary

(astronomy) A moon of the planet Saturn.

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Other Word Forms of Pandora

Noun

Singular:
Pandora
Plural:
pandoras

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 Πανδώρα (Pandṓra), "all gifts".

    From Wiktionary

Pandora Sentence Examples

  • In 1872 appeared Three Books of Song, containing translated as well as original pieces, in 1873 Aftermath and in 1875 The Mask of Pandora, and other Poems. Among these "other poems" were "The Hanging of the Crane," "Morituri Salutamus" and "A Book of Sonnets."

  • In the Greek myth (Hesiod, Works and Days, 90), men lived without " ill diseases that give death to men " till the cover was lifted from the forbidden box of Pandora.

  • When Pandora opened the box all the misfortunes that have since afflicted mankind flew out.

  • When selected, a child stands next to Pandora and puts a hand on her shoulder and speaks the thought or feeling.

  • Go back to index Why was it called Symbion pandora?

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Words Starting With

PPAPAN

Words Ending With

ARAORA

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Pandora

Words Starting With P and Ending With A

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With P7 Letter Words Ending With A