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agora
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ag·o·ra
1
/
ˈæg
ər
ə
/
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[
ag
-er-
uh
]
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noun,
plural
ag·o·rae
/
ˈæg
əˌri
/
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[
ag
-
uh
-ree
]
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(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;
<
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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a·go·ra
2
/
ɑˈgɔr
ə, -ˈgoʊr
ə;
Sephardic Hebrew
ɑ
gɔˈrɑ
/
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[
ah-
gawr
-
uh
, -
gohr
-
uh
;
Sephardic Hebrew
ah-gaw-
r
ah
]
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noun,
plural
a·go·rot
/
ɑˈgɔr
oʊt
,
-ˈgoʊr-
;
Sephardic Hebrew
ɑ
gɔˈrɔt
/
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[
ah-
gawr
-oht
,
-
gohr
-
;
Sephardic Hebrew
ah-gaw-
r
awt
]
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.
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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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2013.
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World English Dictionary
agora
1
(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]
agora
2
(ˌæɡəˈrɑː)
—
n
,
pl
-rot
an Israeli monetary unit worth one hundredth of a shekel
[Hebrew, from
āgōr
to collect]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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AGORA definition
language
A distributed
object-oriented language
.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © Denis Howe 2010
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