fora

Meaning of fora

plural noun
  1. a meeting or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged.
    we hope these pages act as a forum for debate
  2. a court or tribunal.
  3. (in an ancient Roman city) a public square or marketplace used for judicial and other business.

late Middle English (in forum (sense 3)): from Latin, literally ‘what is out of doors’, originally denoting an enclosure surrounding a house; related to fores ‘(outside) door’. forum (sense 1) dates from the mid 18th century.

Information about fora

Hyphenation of fora

fora

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • fora is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

fora synonyms

Meaning an assembly of people for a particular purpose, especially for formal discussion:

meeting

Meaning a group of people gathered together in one place for a common purpose:

assembly

Meaning an assembly or meeting, especially one held for a specific purpose:

gathering

Meaning a formal meeting of people with a shared interest, typically one that takes place over several days:

conference

Meaning a conference or other meeting for discussion or training:

seminar

Meaning a large meeting or conference, especially of members of a political party or a particular profession or group:

convention

Meaning a conversation:

colloquy

Meaning a large formal assembly of people:

convocation

Meaning a formal meeting or series of meetings for discussion between delegates, especially those from a political party, trade union, or from within a particular sphere of activity:

congress

Meaning a mass meeting of people making a political protest or showing support for a cause:

rally

Meaning an advisory, deliberative, or administrative body of people formally constituted and meeting regularly:

council

Meaning a conference or meeting to discuss a particular subject:

symposium

Meaning a private meeting:

conclave

Meaning a group of people assembled for religious worship:

congregation

Meaning an assembly of the clergy and sometimes also the laity in a diocese or other division of a particular Church:

synod

Meaning the kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats:

diet

Meaning (in some US states) a meeting at which local members of a political party register their preference among candidates running for office or select delegates to attend a convention:

caucus

Meaning an academic conference or seminar:

colloquium

Meaning the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place:

setting

Meaning a particular position, point, or area in space; a location:

place

Meaning the place where an incident in real life or fiction occurs or occurred:

scene

Meaning the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood:

context

Meaning a scene of action or forum of debate, especially in a particular political context:

stage

Meaning an essential supporting structure of a building, vehicle, or object:

framework

Meaning a painted cloth hung at the back of a theatre stage as part of the scenery:

backdrop

Meaning an agency or means of doing something:

medium

Meaning an action or system by which a result is achieved; a method:

means

Meaning a business or organization providing a particular service on behalf of another business, person, or group:

agency

Meaning a length of water wider than a strait, joining two larger areas of water, especially two seas:

channel

Meaning a broad road in a town or city, typically having trees at regular intervals along its sides:

avenue

Meaning a thing used for transporting people or goods, especially on land, such as a car, lorry, or cart:

vehicle

Meaning a system of parts working together in a machine; a piece of machinery:

mechanism

Meaning the technical equipment or machinery needed for a particular activity or purpose:

apparatus

Meaning a divine or prophetic token:

auspices

Meaning an open space where a market is or was formerly held:

marketplace

Meaning (in ancient Greece) a public open space used for assemblies and markets:

agora

Anagrams of fora

Afro, afro, Faro, faro

Words that rhyme with fora

Lafora

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