Concourse meaning

kŏn'kôrs', kŏng'-
A large open area or hall where crowds gather, as in a park or railroad station.
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A large open space in a building where people can gather.
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A crowd; throng; gathering.
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A broad thoroughfare.
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A large group of people; a crowd.
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The running or flowing together of things; the meeting of things; confluence.
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An open space, especially in a park, where several roads or paths meet.
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The definition of a concourse is a large open passageway or a crowd of people.

An example of a concourse is a big open area in a bus or train station.

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A large open space for the gathering or passage of crowds, as in an airport.
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A broad thoroughfare.
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A great crowd; a throng.
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The act of coming, moving, or flowing together.
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A coming or flowing together.
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Origin of concourse

  • Middle English concours assembly, throng from Old French from Latin concursus from past participle of concurrere to assemble com- com- currere to run kers- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • French concours, Latin concursus, from concurrere (“to run together”). See concur.
    From Wiktionary

Concourse Sentence Examples

  • of Epirus in the presence of a great concourse from all the Greek world.

  • His body was brought to Amesbury for interment; the funeral services were held in the open air, and conducted after the simple rites of the Friends, in the presence of a large concourse, certain of whom " spake as they were moved " in tribute to the bard.

  • But the festivals, especially those of mountain villages or of pilgrimage churches, attract in the summer a great concourse of people, all in their local costumes.

  • landside concourse.

  • The Lycee had a connexion with the university, and when Cousin left the secondary school he was "crowned" in the ancient hall of the Sorbonne for the Latin oration delivered by him there, in the general concourse of his school competitors.

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