Pandora

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  1. noun Greek Mythology The first woman, bestowed upon humankind as a punishment for Prometheus's theft of fire. Entrusted with a box containing all the ills that could plague people, she opened it out of curiosity and thereby released all the evils of human life.
  2. noun The satellite of Saturn that is fourth in distance from the planet.

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  1. Greek Pandōrā, having all gifts : pan-, pan- + dōron, gift; see dō- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Latin, from Greek Πανδώρα literally the all-endowed, from πᾱς (παν-), all, + δῶρον, gift.
 

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