AGORA (agorae)

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Irregular inflected form: agorae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does agora mean? 

• AGORA (noun)
  The noun AGORA has 3 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: AGORA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGORA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

100 agorot equal 1 shekel in Israel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("agora" is a kind of...):

Israeli monetary unit (monetary unit in Israel)

Holonyms ("agora" is a part of...):

shekel (the basic unit of money in Israel)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The marketplace in ancient Greece

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("agora" is a kind of...):

market; market place; marketplace; mart (an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

agora; public square

Hypernyms ("agora" is a kind of...):

market; market place; marketplace; mart (an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up)