agora

< /ɑˈgɔr oʊt, -ˈgoʊr-; Sephardic Hebrew ɑ gɔˈrɔt/.

1. an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Israel, the 100th part of a shekel: replaced the prutah as the fractional unit in 1960.

noun plural -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

noun plural -rot (-ˈrɒt)

1. an Israeli monetary unit worth one hundredth of a shekel

n.

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