[ag-er-uh] 
[-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. |
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
[ah-gawr-uh, -gohr-uh; Seph. Heb. ah-gaw-rah] [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. |
| 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.] |