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Agora   /ˈægərə/   Listen
Agora

noun
(pl. agorae, agoras)
1.
100 agorot equal 1 shekel in Israel.
2.
The marketplace in ancient Greece.
3.
A place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece.  Synonym: public square.






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"Agora" Quotes from Famous Books



... topar con ellos, y los ha lleuado con mucho amor, sin hazer agrauio a nadie. Ello escosa grade, y de mucha importacia: y los de Mexico esta muy vfanos con su descubrimiento, q tienen entedido q seran ellos el coracon del mundo. Trahe eneste nauio de auiso q es venido agora aca, gegibre, canela, oro en poluo, vna arroua de conchas riquissimas de oro, y blancas, joyas de oro, cera, y otras cosas para dar muestra delo que en aquella tierra ay, y muchas bugerias, y otras cosas muy galanas. Y aunque no las traxeran, harto trahian en hauer descubierto y hallado la nauegacion ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803, Volume II, 1521-1569 • Emma Helen Blair

... wing or the rustle of a leaf, not once only congratulated himself on his good fortune; yet at that hour he might have stood, as so often, listening to the eloquence, the wit, the wisdom, that give proud distinction to the name of Clerkenwell Green. Towards sundown, that modern Agora rang with the voices of orators, swarmed with listeners, with disputants, with mockers, with indifferent loungers. The circle closing about an agnostic lecturer intersected with one gathered for a prayer-meeting; the roar of an enthusiastic total-abstainer blended with the shriek of a Radical ...
— The Nether World • George Gissing



Words linked to "Agora" :   market, marketplace, market place, shekel, Israeli monetary unit, mart



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