agora

noun, plural ag·o·rae

[ag-uh-ree] (in ancient Greece)

a popular political assembly.

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

the Agora, the chief marketplace of Athens, center of the city's civic life.

Origin:
1590–1600; < Greek agorā́ marketplace, equivalent to agor- (variant stem of ageírein to gather together < a pre-Hellenic IE substratum language, equivalent to a(d)- ad- + *ǵher- grasp, cognate with Sanskrit har- seize, fetch) + -ā noun ending

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noun, plural a·go·rot

[ah-gawr-oht, -gohr-; Sephardic Hebrew 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.

Also, agura.

Origin:
< Hebrew

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agora¹ (ˈæɡərə)

—n , pl -rae
	(often capital)
	a. the marketplace in Athens, used for popular meetings, or any similar place of assembly in ancient Greece
	b. the meeting itself

[from Greek, from agorein to gather]

agora² (ˌæɡəˈrɑː)

—n , pl -rot
	an Israeli monetary unit worth one hundredth of a shekel

[Hebrew, from āgōr to collect]

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AGORA definition

language
A distributed object-oriented language.

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The atrium is the bank's agora, home to shows and presentations, and people often arrive in national dress for big events.

Normative economics also has a distinctive approach that deserves to be part of the electronic agora.

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"We should not leave Shopping World without questioning our initial assumption, that here we are in the modern agora. The agora of the classical Greek city was similar, in being the market-place and yet serving as much more, indeed as the most important public space. When a citizen left the privacy of his home, wishing to engage in public life, most likely he went to the agora. Shopping World at its most general is a public space. It answers to one of the most basic of human needs, that for society in the sense of a defined space among people in which to see and be seen, in which to move and to meet, to linger and to evade, a space at the same time in which to conduct some of life's important business—in this case shopping. The Greek agora, however, was different in one crucial respect, a difference that highlights a momentous development in modern life. It was surrounded by civic buildings and temples; it served as the daily centre not only of commerce, but also of religious, political, judicial, and indeed general social life. To be in public in ancient Athens meant to be a citizen, and likely enough to be engaged in civic duties. In modern life, by contrast, the areas of political action have become so remote that to be in public for a person has lost all connotation of being a responsible citizen with duties to his community."

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