Definitions for Agon

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Agon ag·on

Spelling: [ag-ohn, -on, ah-gohn]

IPA: /ˈæg oʊn, -ɒn, ɑˈgoʊn/

Agon is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in Agon (agno).

Definitions for Agon

noun

1. (in ancient Greece) a contest in which prizes were awarded in any of a number of events, as athletics, drama, music, poetry, and painting.
2. (italics) Greek. (in ancient Greek drama) a formalized debate or argumentation, especially in comedy: usually following the proagon and preceding the parabasis.
3. Literature. conflict, especially between the protagonist and the antagonist.

Origin of Agon

First recorded in 1650-60, agon is from the Greek word agṓn struggle, contest

Examples for Agon

Endecagon, en-dek′a-gon, n. a plane figure of eleven sides—also Hendec′agon.

The next day was called the day of the “Cups”—there was a contest or agon of drinking.

I only wished that old agon could have heard her, it would have frightened him.

agon saw this and hesitated, and then for the first time Nyleptha spoke in her soft sweet voice.

Furthermore, this agon happens between the poems or plays or novels themselves, and not between the writers.

Preceding her was agon, the High Priest, arrayed in his most gorgeous vestments, and on either side were other priests.

agon is still the ordinary Russian word for fire, the equivalent of the Latin ignis.

After our escape from agon and his pious crew we returned to our quarters in the palace and had a very good time.