AGORA
What does "AGORA" mean?
The public gathering place and marketplace at the center of an ancient Greek city.
Meanings
- A central open space in an ancient Greek city used for assembly, commerce, and civic life. Socrates did his questioning in the agora, among the merchants and idlers.
- By extension, any forum or arena for public discussion. The internet was once hailed as a new agora for democratic debate. figurative
Did you know?
- Agoraphobia means, word for word, 'fear of the agora' - terror of the open marketplace where Greek public life happened.
Word origin
From Greek 'agora' (assembly, marketplace), from 'ageirein' (to gather together); the same gathering sense underlies 'agoraphobia', literally fear of the marketplace.
Remember it
AGORA = 'a gora' of people gathering in the Greek square.
A little poem
Stone underfoot, the whole city talks at once-
philosophers, fishmongers, the law.
Democracy was first a place you could stand in.
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Wordplay
- Why did the philosopher love the agora? It was the only place where his ideas and the fish were both fresh and on the same table.
What it teaches
A free society needs a square it can stand in: ideas only stay honest where strangers can answer back.
Quick facts
What does AGORA mean?
The public gathering place and marketplace at the center of an ancient Greek city.
Is AGORA a valid word?
Yes — AGORA is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is AGORA?
AGORA has 5 letters and 3 syllables.
Where does AGORA come from?
From Greek 'agora' (assembly, marketplace), from 'ageirein' (to gather together); the same gathering sense underlies 'agoraphobia', literally fear of the marketplace.
What can AGORA teach us?
A free society needs a square it can stand in: ideas only stay honest where strangers can answer back.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.