21 September 2017
agora(1)
[ag-er-uh]
noun, plural agorae [ag-uh-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.
Origin of agora(1)
Greek
1590-1600; < Greek agorā́ marketplace, equivalent to agor- (variant stem of ageírein to gather together < a pre-Hellenic IE substratum language, equivalent to a(d)- ad- + *ǵher- grasp, cognate with Sanskrit har- seize, fetch) + -ā noun ending
agora(2)
[ah-gawr-uh, -gohr-uh; Sephardic Hebrew ah-gaw-rah]
noun, plural agorot [ah-gawr-oht, -gohr-; Sephardic Hebrew ah-gaw-rawt] (Show IPA)
1. 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.
Origin
From Hebrew
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Examples from the Web for agora
Historical Examples
These shall be inscribed on a column in front of the court of the wardens of the agora.
Laws
Plato
The temples should be placed round the agora, and the city built in a circle on the heights.
Laws
Plato
The care of the agora will fall to the wardens of the agora.
Laws
Plato
Today’s quote
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
– H. G. Wells
On this day
21 September – International Day of Peace.
21 September – World Alzheimer’s Day.
21 September 1866 – birth of Herbert George ‘H.G.’ Wells, British science fiction writer, author of The War of the Worlds, Time Machine, Island of Dr Moreau, The War of the Worlds. Died 13 August 1946.
21 September 1934 – birth of Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter, whose biggest hit was his 1984 song ‘Hallelujah‘, which has since been covered by dozens of other singers. In 2004, Cohen discovered his manager had misappropriated around $5 million from him. Although Cohen sued her and was awarded $9 million, she refused to pay up. Cohen was forced to return to work and embarked on a number of worldwide tours as well as released a book of poetry and a number of albums, including ‘Old Ideas‘, ‘Popular Problems‘ and his 13th and last album, ‘You Want It Darker‘, which was released three weeks before his death. Died 7 November 2016.
21 September 1937 – J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ first published.
21 September 2012 – ‘The Hobbit Second Breakfast’ at 11am – to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Hobbit, people everywhere are invited to celebrate the Hobbit Second Breakfast at 11am by popping on the kettle and sitting down with family and friends for camaraderie, companionship and a love of good food.