agora

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[ ag-er-uh ]
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noun,plural ag·o·rae [ag-uh-ree]. /ˈæg əˌri/. (in ancient Greece)
  1. a popular political assembly.

  2. the place where such an assembly met, originally a marketplace or public square.

  1. the Ag·o·ra, the chief marketplace of Athens, center of the city's civic life.

Origin of agora

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First recorded in 1590–1600; from Greek agorā́ “assembly (of the common people, not the nobility), marketplace,” derivative of ageírein “to gather together”

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Other definitions for agora (2 of 2)

agora2
[ ah-gawr-uh, -gohr-uh; Sephardic Hebrew ah-gaw-rah ]

noun,plural a·go·rot [ah-gawr-oht, -gohr-; Sephardic Hebrew ah-gaw-rawt]. /ɑˈgɔr oʊt, -ˈgoʊr-; Sephardic Hebrew ɑ gɔˈrɔt/.
  1. 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

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First recorded in 1960–65; from Hebrew ăgōrāh “coin, payment,” from āgār “to hire”
  • 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.

  • As the crowd from the agora also poured forth, Antonius was finally left on the tribunal sitting alone.

  • All 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)

agora1

/ (ˈæɡərə) /


nounplural -rae (-riː, -raɪ)
  1. (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

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from Greek, from agorein to gather

British Dictionary definitions for agora (2 of 2)

agora2

/ (ˌæɡəˈrɑː) /


nounplural -rot (-ˈrɒt)
  1. an Israeli monetary unit worth one hundredth of a shekel

Origin of agora

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Hebrew, from āgōr to collect

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