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‖ agora Gr. Antiq.|ˈægɒrə|
Pl. agoræ.
[Gr. ἀγορά.]
An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, esp. the market-place. Also transf.
1598Hakluyt Voyages I. 489 The Emperor himselfe, who hath no other seat of Empire but an Agora, or towne of wood, that moueth with him whithersoeuer hee goeth. 1820T. Mitchell Com. Aristoph. I. 176 The agora or forum was the resort of all the idle and profligate in Athens. 1846Grote Greece I. i. i. 2 The custom of occasionally convoking and consulting the divine Agora. 1862E. Falkener Ephesus i. iv. 63 The Greeks, in these hot climates, loved to have water in some form in the centre of their agoræ. 1886W. T. Stead in Contemp. Rev. May 654 The telegraph and the printing-press have converted Great Britain into a vast agora, or assembly of the whole community. 1941Auden New Year Let. iii. 53 The agora of work and news Where each one has the right to choose His trade, his corner and his way.
Comb.1948L. MacNeice Holes in Sky 66 Ancient Athens Was a sparrow-chatter of agora-gibes. |
