Meaning and Origin
What does the name Pandora mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
Origin and Meaning of Pandora
User Submitted Origins
Greek
92%
Spanish
8%
User Submitted Meanings
- 2 submissions from New Zealand and Belgium agree the name Pandora means "All gifted" and is of Greek origin.
- A submission from Texas, U.S. says the name Pandora means "Gift, all gifted" and is of Greek origin.
- According to a user from Virginia, U.S., the name Pandora means "The name pandora means is of Greek and means all gifted".
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
noun Pan*do"ra
Senses
- [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.
- [Zoöl] A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex.
Etymology: L., fr. Gr. Pandw`ra; pa^s pa^n, all + dw^ron a gift
Other Dictionary Sources
- (Greek mythology) the first woman; created by Hephaestus on orders from Zeus who presented her to Epimetheus along with a box filled with evils
Wiktionary
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρᾱ (Pandṓrā, “all gifts”).
- (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.
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