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Definition of PANDORA

Pandora
Pandora Pan*do"ra, n. [L., fr. Gr. Pandw`ra; pa^s, pa^n, all + dw^ron a gift.] 1. (Class. Myth.) 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. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex.

Meaning of PANDORA from wikipedia

- In Gr**** mythology, Pandora (Gr****: Πανδώρα, derived from πᾶν, pān, i.e. "all" and δῶρον, dōron, i.e. "gift", thus "the all-endowed", "all-gifted" or...
- Pandora is a subscription-based music streaming service owned by the broadcasting corporation Sirius XM that is presently based in Oakland, California...
- Pandora's box is an artefact in Gr**** mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod's c. 700 B.C. poem Works and Days. Hesiod related that curiosity...
- PANDORA, or Pandora, is a national web archive for the preservation of Australia's online publications. Established by the National Library of Australia...
- Pandora A/S (often styled PANDORA) is a Danish jewelry manufacturer and retailer founded in 1982 by Per Enevoldsen. The company started as a family-run...
- The Pandora Papers are 11.9 million leaked do****ents with 2.9 terabytes of data that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)...
- Pandōra (パンドーラ) is a 2002 music video directed by Takashi Miike. Seizo ****umoto Koji Kikkawa Reviewer Panos Kotzathanasis of Asian Movie Pulse wrote that...
- Pandora is a character in Gr**** mythology, the first human woman created by the gods. Pandora may also refer to: Pandora's box, mythological artifact connected...
- Pandora Hearts (stylized as PandoraHearts) is a ****anese manga series written and illustrated by Jun Mochizuki. It was serialized in Square Enix's shōnen...
- Anneli Magnusson, known by her stage names Pandora and United DJs vs. Pandora, is a Swedish Eurodance singer. Magnusson grew up with her family outside...