Agora (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun, plural ag·o·rae [ag-uh-ree]. /ˈæg əˌri/. (in ancient Greece)
  1. a popular political assembly.
  2. the place where such an assembly met, originally a marketplace or public square.
  3. the chief marketplace of Athens, center of the city's civic life.
noun, plural a·go·rot [ah-gawr-oht, -gohr-; Sephardic Hebrew ah-gaw-rawt]. /ɑˈgɔr oʊt, -ˈgoʊr-; Sephardic Hebrew ɑ gɔˈrɔt/.
  1. an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Israel, one 100th of a shekel: replaced the prutah as the fractional unit in 1960.
noun plural -rae (-riː, -raɪ)
  1. (often capital)
    • the marketplace in Athens, used for popular meetings, or any similar place of assembly in ancient Greece
    • the meeting itself
noun plural -rot (-ˈrɒt)
  1. an Israeli monetary unit worth one hundredth of a shekel
Agora (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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