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agora

1 American  
[ag-er-uh] / ˈæg ər ə /

noun

plural

agorae

  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.

agora 2 American  
[ah-gawr-uh, -gohr-uh, ah-gaw-rah] / ɑˈgɔr ə, -ˈgoʊr ə, ɑ gɔˈrɑ /
Sephardic Hebrew agura

noun

plural

agorot

  1. an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Israel, one 100th of a shekel: replaced the prutah as the fractional unit in 1960.

agora 1 British  
/ ˈæɡərə /

noun

  1. (often capital)

    1. the marketplace in Athens, used for popular meetings, or any similar place of assembly in ancient Greece

    2. the meeting itself

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agora 2 British  
/ ˌæɡəˈrɑː /

noun

  1. an Israeli monetary unit worth one hundredth of a shekel

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Etymology

Origin of agora1

First recorded in 1590–1600; from Greek agorā́ “assembly (of the common people, not the nobility), marketplace,” derivative of ageírein “to gather together”

Origin of agora2

First recorded in 1960–65; from Hebrew ăgōrāh “coin, payment,” from āgār “to hire”

Example Sentences

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The futuristic Grecian agora, which opened in 2022, was beyond anything they’d built before — similar to Red Rocks in Colorado or Forest Hills Stadium in New York.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

It’s a lovely image: Kirk as a modern-day Socrates, wandering the agora of America’s universities seeking to find truth by means of rhetorical contest.

From Salon • Sep. 17, 2025

The report is the initial phase of an ambitious effort to map the modern agora, referring to the lively assembly places of ancient Greece often considered to be the birthplace of democracy.

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2023

The Stoics were so named because Zeno instructed his students in the stoa poikile, or “painted porch” in the Athenian agora.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

We know that the statues of eponymous heroes were set up in the agora.

From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various

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