agora: Meaning and Definition of
ag•o•ra
Pronunciation: (ag'ur-u), [key]
— pl. -o•rae
- a popular political assembly.
- the place where such an assembly met, originally a marketplace or public square.
- the chief marketplace of Athens, center of the city's civic life.
a•go•ra
Pronunciation: (ä-gôr'u, -gōr'uSeph. Heb.ä-gô-rä'), [key]
— pl. a•go•rot
- an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Israel, the 100th part of a shekel: replaced the prutah as the fractional unit in 1960.
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