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agorae

[ag-er-uh]

ag·o·ra

1[ag-er-uh]
noun, plural -o·rae [-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; < 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) + noun ending

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Agorae is always a great word to know.
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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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a·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] .
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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