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Definition: AGGER

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. An earthwork; a mound; a raised work.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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"Agger" is a common misspelling or typo for: dagger, jagger, tagger, ragger, bagger, ager, aggers, wagger, gagger, nagger, sagger, gager, lagger, fagger.

Date "Agger" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1783. (references)

Etymology:Agger \Ag"ger\, noun. [Latin expression, mound, from aggerere to bear to place, heap up; ad gerere to bear.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: AGGER

Domain Definition
Antiquities Agger (chôma), from ad and gero. A term used in general for a heap or mound of any kind. It was more particularly applied to a mound, usually composed of earth, which was raised around a besieged town, and was gradually increased in breadth and height till it equaled or overtopped the walls. At the siege of Avaricum, Caesar raised in twenty-five days an agger 330 feet broad and 80 feet high. The agger was sometimes made not only of earth, but of wood, hurdles, etc., whence we read of its being set on fire. The name agger was also applied to the earthen wall surrounding a Roman encampment, composed of the earth dug from the ditch (fossa), which was usually nine feet broad and seven feet deep; but if any attack was apprehended, the depth was increased to twelve feet and the breadth to thirteen feet. Sharp stakes were usually fixed upon the agger, which was then called vallum. When both words are used (as in Caesar, agger ac vallum), the agger means the mound of earth, and the vallum, the sharp stakes which were fixed upon the agger. (references)

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Common Expressions: AGGER

Expressions Definition
Agger nasi The agger nasi is a small ridge on the lateral side of the nasal cavity. It is located midway at the anterior edge of the middle nasal concha, directly above the atrium of the middle meatus. It is formed by a mucous membrane that is covering the ethmoidal crest of the maxilla. (references)

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Extended Definition: AGGER

Agger

For the river in Germany see Agger River. For the Danish footballer see Daniel Agger
Remains of the Agger of Ardea, Italy.
Remains of the Agger of Ardea, Italy.

Agger is the Roman word for an embankment or rampart, from the Latin aggero meaning to heap up, make a mound.

It is especially used for the raised and cambered embankment carrying a Roman road. The agger was constructed by excavating the line of the road, building a firm foundation, refilling and compressing the soil, adding more soil from digging drainage ditches (fossa) on one or both sides of the road, then surfacing with graded layers of stone and cobbles. The course of a Roman road can often be traced today by the distinctive line of the agger across the landscape.

Agger is also the name given to a particular part of the Servian walls of Rome. The Agger protected the city on its most vulnerable side, the Campus Esquilinus. It consisted of a double rampart bearing formidable fortifications.

She-wolf suckles Romulus and Remus

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Topics by Level of Interest: AGGER

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Daniel Agger 29     Agger 4
Agger nasi 9     Agger nasi 9
Nicolaj Agger 6     Agger River 3
Agger 4     Agger Rockshelter 3
Agger Rockshelter 3     Daniel Agger 29
Agger River 3     Nicolaj Agger 6

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

"agger" is a common misspelling or typo for: dagger, jagger, tagger, ragger, bagger, ager, aggers, wagger, gagger, nagger, sagger, gager, lagger, fagger.

Synonyms: agger
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

 earthwork, mound, bank, fortress, jetty, levee, rampart.
Consider also: heap, hill, hillock, knoll, stack, fortification, bulwark, dam, dike, fort, groyne, hummock, mountain, pile, embankment, trench, coast, gradient, slope.
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Computed Synonyms: agger

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   2.0195   agger     ascent     rise, ascension, climb, slope, acclivity   
 2   2.0195   agger     apron     floor, platform, deck, skirt, flap   
 3   2.0191   agger     acclivity     slope, gradient, hillside, ascent, incline   
 4   2.0095   agger     rise     increase, rising, raise, lift, ascend   
 5   2.0094   agger     talus     slope, ramp, incline, bank, shoulder   
 6   2.0094   agger     slope     incline, slant, lean, gradient, ramp   
 7   2.0094   agger     grade     rank, degree, class, grading, rate   
 8   2.0094   agger     chute     gutter, channel, duct, drain, gully   
 9   2.0094   agger     bosh     nonsense, rubbish, drivel, stupidity, foolishness   
 10   2.0094   agger     boom     roar, Pole, rumble, beam, rise   
 11   2.0094   agger     bank     shore, embankment, banking, edge, slope   
 12   2.0094   agger     ramp     slope, incline, bank, gradient, talus   
 13   2.0093   agger     runway     track, pathway, course, path, lane   
 14   2.0092   agger     incline     slope, slant, tilt, lean, ramp   
 15   2.0091   agger     hillside     slope, acclivity, hill, side, incline   
--------------------     3 synonyms ranked from 16 to 18 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Synonyms via Expressions: agger

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   2.2090   agger     breaker bar     spray boom, boom, upwards grade   
 2   2.0090   agger     stern ramp     bathing slip, brief slip, shorts   
 3   2.0090   agger     spray boom     boom, breaker bar, spraybar   
 4   2.0088   agger     upwards grade     ascent, acclivity, slope   
 5   2.0088   agger     variable load     ramp, varying load, changing load   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: AGGER

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Brazilian Portuguese rampa (slope, acclivity, hillside, ramp, agger). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, agger. (volunteer & more translations)
Central Danish Daniel Agger (Daniel Agger). Additional references: Central Danish, Denmark, Germany, agger. (volunteer & more translations)
Danish Daniel Agger (Daniel Agger). Additional references: Danish, Denmark, Germany, agger. (volunteer & more translations)
Dansk Daniel Agger (Daniel Agger). Additional references: Dansk, Denmark, Germany, agger. (volunteer & more translations)
Français ponticule de l'oreille (agger auriculae). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, agger. (volunteer & more translations)
French ponticule de l'oreille (agger auriculae). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, agger. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguk Mal 이중 조수 (agger). Additional references: Hanguk Mal, Korea, South, Korea, agger. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguohua 이중 조수 (agger). Additional references: Hanguohua, Korea, South, Korea, agger. (volunteer & more translations)
Korean 이중 조수 (agger). Additional references: Korean, Korea, South, Korea, agger. (volunteer & more translations)
Portuguese rampa (slope, acclivity, hillside, ramp, agger). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, agger. (volunteer & more translations)
Sjaelland Daniel Agger (Daniel Agger). Additional references: Sjaelland, Denmark, Germany, agger. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: AGGER

Language Translations for “agger” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag athagaggathager (agger). Additional references: Athag, agger. (volunteer)
Double Dutch agaggager (agger). Additional references: Double Dutch, agger. (volunteer)
Leet /-\99£2 (agger). Additional references: Leet, agger. (volunteer)
Oppish opaggoper (agger). Additional references: Oppish, agger. (volunteer)
Pig Latin aggerway (agger). Additional references: Pig Latin, agger. (volunteer)
Terran B rampa (agger). Additional references: Terran B, agger. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi ubagguber (agger). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, agger. (volunteer)
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Ancestral and Extinct Language Translations: AGGER

Language Period Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Latin 500 BCE - 1700 mound (agger, tumulus), bulwark (agger). Additional references: Latin, agger. (volunteer)
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