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Agon vs Dagon - What's the difference?

agon | dagon |

As nouns the difference between agon and dagon

is that agon is a struggle or contest; conflict; especially between the protagonist and antagonist in a literary work while dagon is a slip or piece.

As a proper noun Dagon is

the main god of the Phoenicians, represented as half man and half fish.

agon

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Noun

(wikipedia agon) (en-noun)
  • A struggle or contest; conflict; especially between the protagonist and antagonist in a literary work.
  • An intellectual conflict or apparent competition of ideas.
    • “Freud's originality stemmed from his aggression and ambition in his agon with biology” (Harold Bloom).
  • A contest in ancient Greece, as in athletics or music, in which prizes were awarded.
  • A two-player boardgame played with a hexagonally-tiled board, popular in Victorian times. Also known as queen's guard.

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    * Agonies * agony * agonism * antagonism

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    dagon

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    (Dagon)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The main god of the Phoenicians, represented as half man and half fish.
  • * Bible, 1 Sam. v. 2
    • They brought it into the house of Dagon .
  • * (John Milton)
    • This day a solemn feast the people hold / To Dagon , their sea idol.
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon , idol of the Philistines.}}

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