| 单词 | agora |
| 释义 | agora agora1 /ag"euhr euh/, n. , pl. agorae /-euh ree'/. (in ancient Greece) 1. a popular political assembly. 2. the place where such an assembly met, originally a marketplace or public square. 3. the Agora, the chief marketplace of Athens, center of the city's civic life. [1590-1600; < Gk agorá marketplace, equiv. to agor- (var. s. of ageírein to gather together < a pre-Hellenic IE substratum language, equiv. to a(d)- AD- + *gher- grasp, c. Skt har- seize, fetch) + -a n. ending] agora2 /ah gawr"euh, -gohr"euh/; Seph. Heb. /ah gaw rddah"/, n. , pl. agorot /ah gawr"oht, -gohr"-/; Seph. Heb. /ah gaw rddawt"/. an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Israel, the 100th part of a shekel: replaced the prutah as the fractional unit in 1960. Also, agura. [ < Heb] |
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