concourse
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con·course
(kŏn'kôrs', -kōrs', kŏng'-) 
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- A large open space for the gathering or passage of crowds, as in an airport.
- A broad thoroughfare.
- A great crowd; a throng.
- The act of coming, moving, or flowing together.
[Middle English concours, assembly, throng, from Old French, from Latin concursus, from past participle of concurrere, to assemble : com-, com- + currere, to run.]
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concourse
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- The act or fact of coming together: confluence, convergence, gathering, junction, meeting. See connect.
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1. An open space where several roads or paths meet.
2. An open space for accommodating large crowds in a building, as in a railway terminal.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Aviation:
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concourse
A passageway for passengers and the public between the principal terminal building waiting area and the fingers and/or aircraft landing positions.
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categories related to 'concourse'
- Roadways and Driving - concourse: open space where roads or paths meet; junction
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Concourse
For the skyscraper in Singapore, see The Concourse.
For concours, see Concours (disambiguation).
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A concourse is a place where pathways or roads meet, such as in a hotel, a convention center, a railway station, an airport terminal, a hall, or other space.
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Examples
Examples of concourses include:
- Meeting halls
- Universities
- Railway stations
- conference centers
- Hotels
- Airport terminals
- Shopping malls or portions of shopping malls which are often called "shopping concourses"
- Sports arenas and stadiums
- Sixth Form Common rooms
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Outdoor concourses
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Earnley Concourse, West Sussex, 2009[1]
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Concourse outside City Hall, London.
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Concourse outside Wembley Arena, 2008
Public transport concourses
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Leeds City bus station concourse, 2007
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Leeds railway station concourse, 2009
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Liverpool Street concourse, 2009
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Los Angeles International Airport Terminal 4 concourse, 2006
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London Paddington station concourse, The Lawn, 2009
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St Pancras shopping concourse during Christmas, 2011
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St Pancras entrance concourse, 2009
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Waterloo Station former Eurostar check-in concourse, 2009
Car park concourses
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Braehead car park concourse, 2008
Contemporary usage
More recently, "concourse" is often used to refer to a situation where people come together in online presence, even if they don't come together in real physical life. An example of such an online community is the IEEE Student Concourse, as well as various online shopping concourses.
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References
- ^ This local village name for its common land may imply an early usage of the word, concourse.
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Concourse
Dansk (Danish)
n. - forsamling, tilstrømning, gennemgangshal
Nederlands (Dutch)
menigte, samenkomst, ruime hal
Français (French)
n. - hall, assemblée (sout), (Archit, Rail) hall, foule, rassemblement, affluence
Deutsch (German)
n. - Menschenmenge, Halle
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - συμβολή (ποταμών κ.λπ.), συρροή, σύναξη, κοσμοσυρροή, πλατεία, αλάνα
Italiano (Italian)
affluenza, terminal
Português (Portuguese)
n. - concurso (m), afluência (f), saguão (m)
Русский (Russian)
скопление, зал ожидания
Español (Spanish)
n. - concurrencia, confluencia, encrucijada, explanada
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - sammanträffande, tillströmning, folkmassa, mängd, mötesplats, idrottsplan
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
集合, 群众, 合流
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 集合, 群眾, 合流
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 집합, 산책길, 중앙광장
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 集合, 群集, 競馬場, 中央広場, コンコース
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) اجتماع, حشد, ساحه داخل بنايه, مضمار السباق
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - המון, רחבה, מפגש, כינוס, התקהלות, רחבה מרכזית בתוך בניין, תחנת-רכבת
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