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a·go·ra2    Audio Help   [ah-gawr-uh, -gohr-uh; Seph. Heb. ah-gaw-rah] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural a·go·rot    Audio Help   [ah-gawr-oht, -gohr-; Seph. Heb. ah-gaw-rawt] Pronunciation Key.
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Israel, the 100th part of a shekel: replaced the prutah as the fractional unit in 1960.
Also, agura.

[Origin: < Heb]
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ag·o·ra1    Audio Help   [ag-er-uh] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural -o·rae    Audio Help   [-uh-ree] Pronunciation Key. (in ancient Greece)
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.
[Origin: 1590–1600; < Gk agor marketplace, equiv. to agor- (var. s. of ageírein to gather together < a pre-Hellenic IE substratum language, equiv. to a(d)- ad- + *ǵher- grasp, c. Skt har- seize, fetch) + -ā n. ending]
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agora [Gr.,=market], in ancient Greece, the public square or marketplace of a city. In early Greek history the agora was primarily used as a place for public assembly; later it functioned mainly as a center of commerce. Usually in a readily accessible part of the city, it was often surrounded by the public buildings, such as the royal palace, the law courts, the assembly house, and the jail. A favorite architectural device was the colonnade surrounding the agora. One of the highest honors was to be granted a tomb in the agora. The agora was similar to the Roman forum. 
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