Definitions for agoras

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agoras ag·o·ra

Spelling: [ag-er-uh]

IPA: /ˈæg ər ə/

Agoras is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in agoras (aagors).

Definitions for agoras

noun

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

Origin of agoras

1590-1600; Greek agorā́ marketplace, equivalent to agor- (variant stem of ageírein to gather together a(d)- ad- + *ǵher- grasp, cognate with Sanskrit har- seize, fetch)

Examples for agoras

Forum, the place of general assembly in a Roman city, as the agora was in a Greek.

The temples should be placed round the agora, and the city built in a circle on the heights.

After the wardens of the country, we have to speak of the election of wardens of the agora and of the city.

Pollux adds 136 his testimony that the wooden seats were in the agora.

Now the wardens of the agora ought to see to the details of the agora.

Next we have to speak of the elections of the wardens of the agora and of the city.

Then the troops from the city poured into the agora of Hippodmus.

(a) Lying was forbidden in the agora both by Plato and at Athens (Telfy).

The care of the agora will fall to the wardens of the agora.

These shall be inscribed on a column in front of the court of the wardens of the agora.