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ag⋅o⋅ra
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[ag-er-uh] 
–noun, plural -o⋅rae [-uh-ree] . (in ancient Greece)
[-uh-ree] . (in ancient Greece) | 1. | a popular political assembly. |
| 2. | the place where such an assembly met, originally a marketplace or public square. |
| 3. | the Agora, the chief marketplace of Athens, center of the city's civic life. |
Origin:
1590–1600; < Gk agor
marketplace, equiv. to agor- (var. s. of ageírein to gather together < a pre-Hellenic IE substratum language, equiv. to a(d)- ad- + *ǵher- grasp, c. Skt har- seize, fetch) + -ā n. ending
1590–1600; < Gk agor
marketplace, equiv. to agor- (var. s. of ageírein to gather together < a pre-Hellenic IE substratum language, equiv. to a(d)- ad- + *ǵher- grasp, c. Skt har- seize, fetch) + -ā n. endinga⋅go⋅ra
2 [ah-gawr-uh, -gohr-uh; Seph. Heb. ah-gaw-rah] –noun, plural a⋅go⋅rot [ah-gawr-oht, -gohr-; Seph. Heb. ah-gaw-rawt] .
[ah-gawr-oht, -gohr-; Seph. Heb. ah-gaw-rawt] . | an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Israel, the 100th part of a shekel: replaced the prutah as the fractional unit in 1960. |
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| ag·o·ra 1 (āg'ər-ə) n. pl. ag·o·rae (ə-rē') or ag·o·ras A place of congregation, especially an ancient Greek marketplace. [Greek agorā; see ger- in Indo-European roots.] |
| a·go·ra 2 (ä'gə-rä') n. pl. a·go·rot or a·go·roth (-rōt') See Table at currency. [Hebrew 'āgôrâ, from 'āgar, to hire; see  gr in Semitic roots.] |
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Agora
Ag"o*ra\ ([a^]g"[-o]*r[.a]), n. [Gr. 'agora`.] An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.
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Language Translation for : agora
Spanish:
en este momento,
German:
gerade jetzt,
Japanese:
ただ今は
AGORA language
A distributed object-oriented language.
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