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Definition: Pandora's Box |
Pandora's BoxNoun1. (Greek mythology) a box that Zeus gave to Pandora with instructions that she not open it; she gave in to her curiosity and opened it; all the miseries and evils flew out to afflict mankind. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Pandora's Box (A). A present which seems valuable, but which is in reality a curse; as when Midas was permitted, according to his request, to turn whatever he touched into gold, and found his very food became gold, and therefore uneatable. Prometheus made an image and stole fire from heaven to endow it with life. In revenge, Jupiter told Vulcan to make a female statue, and gave her a box which she was to present to the man who married her. Prometheus distrusted Jove and his gifts, but Epimetheus, his brother, married the beautiful Pandora, and received the box. Immediately the bridegroom opened the box all the evils that flesh is heir to flew forth, and have ever since continued to afflict the world. The last thing that flew from the box was Hope. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Because of this it has gained a number of other meanings:
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Evil | Noun: evil, ill, harm, hurt., mischief, nuisance; machinations of the devil, Pandora's box, ills that flesh is heir to. |
Hope | Beam of hope, ray of hope, gleam of hope, glimmer of hope, flash of hope, dawn of hope, star of hope; cheer; bit of blue sky, silver lining, silver lining of the cloud, bottom of Pandora's box, balm in Gilead; light at the end of the tunnel. |
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Movie/TV Titles | Pandora's Box (1963) | |
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German | büchse der pandora. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | andora'spay oxbay izvor al tuturor relelor, cutia pandorei. (various references) ящик Пандоры, источник всяческих бед. (various references) la caja de pandora. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "'-a-a-b-d-n-o-o-p-r-s-x" | |
-4 letters: bandoras, bradoons, pandoors, pandoras, probands. | |
-5 letters: bandora, bradoon, broadax, onboard, pandoor, pandora, parados, paradox, pardons, parodos, proband, robands, sandbar, sandbox, soapbox, soprano. | |
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