aga
noun
a title of honor, usually implying respect for age.
agas
-
pluralof aga.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The caids, agas, bash-agas, and other titled Arabs, held the places of honor, for they occupied the orchestra stalls and the dress circle.
From The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life by Julian Hawthorne
The series concludes with a notice Ad interventorem, a person whom we may call A talkative intruder: Non patitur quenquam coram se scriba loquentem: Non est hic quod agas, garrule, perge foras.
From Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods The Rede Lecture Delivered June 13, 1894 by John Willis Clark
Examples.—Vivi estas agi; kiu ne agas, tiu ne vivas = To live is to act; he who acts not, lives not.
From The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by George Cox
The Musselim or Governor, with the chief agas of the city, mounted on horses superbly caparisoned, and attended by slaves, meet, commonly on Sunday morning, on their playground.
From The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt
But in reality none was awaiting an audience in the ante-room, there were no splendid envoys there, no humble petitioners, no agas, no messengers, none but the Vizier's own slaves.
From The Slaves of the Padishah by M?r J?kai
