pandora

¹

Also pan·dore

[pan-dawr-uh, -dohr-uh]

noun

1. bandore.

Pandora

²

[pan-dawr-uh, -dohr-uh]

noun

1. Classical Mythology.,  the first woman, created by Hephaestus, endowed by the gods with all the graces and treacherously presented to Epimetheus along with a box (originally a jar) in which Prometheus had confined all the evils that could trouble humanity. As the gods had anticipated, Pandora gave in to her curiosity and opened the box, allowing the evils to escape, thereby frustrating the efforts of Prometheus. In some versions, the box contained blessings, all of which escaped but hope.

pandora

¹

/ pænˈdɔːrə /

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

3. music another word for bandore

Pandora

²

/ pænˈdɔː, ˈpændɔː, pænˈdɔːrə /

noun

1. Greek myth 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of pandora¹

< Latin < Greek Pandṓra, equivalent to pan- pan- + dôr ( on ) gift + -a feminine noun ending

Word History and Origins

Origin of pandora¹

after _Pandora

Origin of pandora²

from Greek, literally: all-gifted

Example Sentences

Recent developments have opened a Pandora’s box.

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It also opened a Pandora's Box of controversial scientific and ethical issues - including human cloning, designer babies and "Frankenstein foods".

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He’d been a more than congenial host, showing this writer around the cavernous space where a group of what looked like teenagers with laptops were composing the landscapes of the film’s fictional world Pandora.

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That joke opened Pandora’s box, because the next thing I knew, he asked me if I ever had a three-way.

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A diverse group of public figures, ranging from Apple co-founder Steven Wozniak to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to former White House advisor Steve Bannon, signed a petition Wednesday that effectively seeks to do what Pandora and Aladdin couldn’t do, and what mathematician and code breaker Alan Turing likely wouldn’t want to do: Put the problems that AI has created back into some sort of airtight vault.

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