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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ag•o•ra1 (ag′ər ə),USA pronunciation n., pl. -o•rae (-ə rē′).USA pronunciation (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.
- a pre-Hellenic Indo-European substratum language, equivalent. to a(d)- ad- + *ǵher- grasp, cognate with Sanskrit har- seize, fetch) + -ā noun, nominal ending
- Greek agorá̄ marketplace, equivalent. to agor- (variant stem of ageírein to gather together
- 1590–1600
(ä gôr′ōt, -gōr′-; Seph. Heb. ä gô rôt′).USA pronunciation - Currencyan aluminum coin and monetary unit of Israel, the 100th part of a shekel: replaced the prutah as the fractional unit in 1960.
Also, agura. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: agora /ˈæɡərə/ n ( pl -rae / -riː -raɪ/)- (often capital) the marketplace in Athens, used for popular meetings, or any similar place of assembly in ancient Greece
- the meeting itself
Etymology: from Greek, from agorein to gather |