ALL meanings of pandora
pan·do·ra
P p - noun Technical meaning of pandora (language) Parlog extended to allow don't-know nondeterminism. 1
- noun pandora 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. 1
- noun pandora 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 0
- noun pandora a handsome red sea bream, Pagellus erythrinus, of European coastal waters, caught for food in the Mediterranean 0
- noun pandora a marine bivalve mollusc of the genus Pandora that lives on the surface of sandy shores and has thin equal valves 0
- noun pandora 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) 0
- noun pandora bandore 0