agora1

[ag-er-uh] /ˈæg ər ə/
noun, plural agorae
[ag-uh-ree] /ˈæg əˌri/ (Show IPA) (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
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

agora2

[ah-gawr-uh, -gohr-uh; Sephardic Hebrew ah-gaw-rah] /ɑˈgɔr ə, -ˈgoʊr ə; Sephardic Hebrew ɑ gɔˈrɑ/
noun, plural agorot
[ah-gawr-oht, -gohr-; Sephardic Hebrew ah-gaw-rawt] /ɑˈgɔr oʊt, -ˈgoʊr-; Sephardic Hebrew ɑ gɔˈrɔt/ (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
< Hebrew
Examples from the web for agora
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  • The atrium is the bank's agora, home to shows and presentations, and people often arrive in national dress for big events.
British Dictionary definitions for agora

agora1

/ˈæɡərə/
noun (pl) -rae (-riː; -raɪ)
1.
(often capital)
  1. the marketplace in Athens, used for popular meetings, or any similar place of assembly in ancient Greece
  2. the meeting itself
Word Origin
from Greek, from agorein to gather

agora2

/ˌæɡəˈrɑː/
noun (pl) -rot (-ˈrɒt)
1.
an Israeli monetary unit worth one hundredth of a shekel
Word Origin
Hebrew, from āgōr to collect
Word Origin and History for agora
n.

"assembly place," 1590s, from Greek agora "open space" (typically a marketplace), from ageirein "to assemble," from PIE root *ger- "to gather" (see gregarious).

agora in Technology

language
A distributed object-oriented language.