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AGORA
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Irregular inflected form: agorae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece
Synonyms:
agora; public square
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
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 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:
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)
