Usually means: Conflict or struggle in literature.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. agon: Merriam-Webster
  2. agon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. agon: Collins English Dictionary
  4. agon: Vocabulary.com
  5. Agon, agon: Wordnik
  6. agon: Wiktionary
  7. agon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. agon: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Agon, agon: Dictionary.com
  10. AGON, Agon (Stravinsky), Agon (ballet), Agon (band), Agon (comics), Agon (disambiguation), Agon (game), Agon (newspaper), Agon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Agon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. agon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. agon: Rhymezone
  14. Agon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. agon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. agon: FreeDictionary.org
  17. agon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. agon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. agon: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. agon-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AGON: Acronym Finder
  2. agon, agon: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. agon: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (agon)

noun:  (countable) A struggle or contest; conflict; especially between the protagonist and antagonist in a literary work.
noun:  (countable) An intellectual conflict or apparent competition of ideas.
noun:  (countable) A contest in ancient Greece, as in athletics or music, in which prizes were awarded.
noun:  (uncountable) A two-player board game played on a hexagonally-tiled board, popular in Victorian times.

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