PANDORA

Pandora

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Proper noun

Pandora

(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.

(astronomy) A moon of the planet Saturn.

(astronomy) 55 Pandora, a main belt asteroid.

Anagrams

• paradon

Noun

pandora (plural pandoras)

Any fish of the genus Pagellus.

Synonyms

• porgy

Anagrams

• paradon

Source: Wiktionary

Pan*do"ra, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. Pandw`ra; pa^s, pa^n, all + dw^ron a gift.]

1. (Class. Myth.)

Definition: A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it.

2. (Zoöl.)

Definition: A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition