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noun (n)

• a public meeting or assembly for open discussion(noun.group)

  source: wordnet30
• a public facility to meet for open discussion(noun.artifact)

  Synonym:
  assembly, meeting place
  

  source: wordnet30
• A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.(noun)

  source: webster1913