Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
(Greek mythology) the first woman;
created by Hephaestus on orders from Zeus who presented her to Epimetheus along with a box filled with evils;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pandora \Pan*do"ra\, prop. 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.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Zool.) A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is
flat, the other convex.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
pandore \pan"dore\ (p[a^]n"d[=o]r or p[a^]n*d[=o]r"), n. [F. See
Bandore.]
An ancient musical instrument, of the lute kind; a bandore.
[Written also pandora, pandoura. pandure, and
pandoran.]
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Pandora
n 1: (Greek mythology) the first woman; created by Hephaestus on
orders from Zeus who presented her to Epimetheus along with
a box filled with evils
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
Pandora
Parlog extended to allow don't-know
nondeterminism.
["Pandora: Non-Deterministic Parallel Logic Programming",
R. Bahgat et al, Proc 6th Intl Conf Logic Programming, MIT
Press 1989 pp. 471-486].
(1995-04-27)