Synonyms for agora


Grammar : Noun
Spell : ag-er-uh
Phonetic Transcription : ˈæg ər ə

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Définition of agora

Origin :
  • "assembly place," 1590s, from Greek agora "open space" (typically a marketplace), from ageirein "to assemble," from PIE root *ger- "to gather" (see gregarious).
  • As in shopping center : noun collection of stores in one place
  • As in marketplace : noun shopping place
Example sentences :
  • These shall be inscribed on a column in front of the court of the wardens of the agora.
  • Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
  • The temples should be placed round the Agora, and the city built in a circle on the heights.
  • Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
  • The care of the agora will fall to the wardens of the agora.
  • Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
  • (a) Lying was forbidden in the agora both by Plato and at Athens (Telfy).
  • Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
  • After the wardens of the country, we have to speak of the election of wardens of the agora and of the city.
  • Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
  • Now the wardens of the agora ought to see to the details of the agora.
  • Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
  • Next we have to speak of the elections of the wardens of the agora and of the city.
  • Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
  • Then the troops from the city poured into the Agora of Hippodmus.
  • Extract from : « Hellenica » by Xenophon
  • Forum, the place of general assembly in a Roman city, as the Agora was in a Greek.
  • Extract from : « Architecture » by Thomas Roger Smith
  • Pollux adds 136 his testimony that the wooden seats were in the agora.
  • Extract from : « The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 » by Various
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