MEANING
The public gathering and market space of an ancient Greek town or city.
Use it for
Ancient civic life; public debate; market encountersMake a public space simultaneously a market and a center of civic life.
Words that belong together
- central agora
- gather in the agora
- agora of the city
On the page
The messenger repeated the announcement in the agora where merchants could hear it.
By midday, a dispute over prices had drawn a crowd in the agora.
The historian compared the civic roles of two neighboring agoras.
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Word forms
- Base
- agora
Usage notes
Primary category: setting. Historical cultural specificity matters. It served civic and social functions as well as commerce; not a generic name for every modern square. Plurals: agoras and agorae. Historical public-space sense; not the similarly named monetary unit.
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