agora
1a popular political assembly.
the place where such an assembly met, originally a marketplace or public square.
the Ag·o·ra, the chief marketplace of Athens, center of the city's civic life.
Origin of agora
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Other definitions for agora (2 of 2)
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Israel, one 100th of a shekel: replaced the prutah as the fractional unit in 1960.
Origin of agora
2- Also a·gu·ra [ah-gawr-uh, -gohr-uh; Sephardic Hebrew ah-gaw-rah] /ɑˈgɔr ə, -ˈgoʊr ə; Sephardic Hebrew ɑ gɔˈrɑ/ .
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How to use agora in a sentence
You see, the internet, the agora where there’s no field of endeavor obscure enough that YOUR opinion is not only requested but desired, has created monsters.
We find the same ideas to spring up in the agora of Athens, the wilds and snows of Norway, and the heathers and hills of Scotland.
Even in the Homeric State there was a council of elders and an assembly of freemen—an agora—in addition to the king.
Elements of Folk Psychology | Wilhelm WundtAs the crowd from the agora also poured forth, Antonius was finally left on the tribunal sitting alone.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume IV | Aubrey StewartAll purchases and exchanges are to be made in the agora, and paid for on the spot; the law will not allow credit to be given.
Laws | Plato
And so Theramenes was dragged through the agora, in vehement and loud tones proclaiming the wrongs that he was suffering.
Hellenica | Xenophon
British Dictionary definitions for agora (1 of 2)
/ (ˈæɡərə) /
(often capital)
the marketplace in Athens, used for popular meetings, or any similar place of assembly in ancient Greece
the meeting itself
Origin of agora
1British Dictionary definitions for agora (2 of 2)
/ (ˌæɡəˈrɑː) /
an Israeli monetary unit worth one hundredth of a shekel
Origin of agora
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