Agora

noun

noun ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A place for gathering.

    "The custom was to dance its length, moving from partner to masked partner all the way to the agora, the city’s gathering place."

  2. 2
    Since 1960, a monetary unit and coin of Israel, the 100th part of a shekel / sheqel.
  3. 3
    a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece wordnet
  4. 4
    A marketplace, especially in Classical Greece.
  5. 5
    the marketplace in ancient Greece wordnet
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  1. 6
    100 agorot equal 1 shekel in Israel wordnet

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"The custom was to dance its length, moving from partner to masked partner all the way to the agora, the city’s gathering place."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá).

Etymology 2

From Hebrew אֲגוֹרָה (agorá), from the root א־ג־ר (ʾ-g-r, “forming words relating to hoarding and storing”).

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