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===Etymology=== |
===Etymology=== |
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{{etyl|fr|en}} {{term|concours|lang=fr}}, {{etyl|la|en}} {{lena}} {{term|concursus|lang=la}}, from {{term|concurrere|lang=la||to run together}}. See {{term|concur|lang=en}}. |
{{etyl|fr|en}} {{term|concours|lang=fr}}, {{etyl|la|en}} {{lena}} {{term|concursus|lang=la}}, from {{term|concurrere|lang=la||to run together}}. See {{term|concur|lang=en}}. |
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Revision as of 03:13, 5 August 2013
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French (deprecated template usage) concours, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) concursus, from (deprecated template usage) concurrere. See (deprecated template usage) concur.
Noun
concourse (plural concourses)
- A large open space in a building where people can gather.
- A large group of people; a crowd.
- 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, (please specify |part=I to IV):, The Publisher to the Reader
- About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbours.
- Prescott
- Amidst the concourse were to be seen the noble ladies of Milan, in gay, fantastic cars, shining in silk brocade.
- The running or flowing together of things; the meeting of things; confluence.
- 1662 - Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World, First Day:
- ... there was only wanting the concourse of rains ...
- Sir M. Hale
- The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter.
- Sir Isaac Newton
- The drop will begin to move toward the concourse of the glasses.
- 1662 - Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World, First Day:
- An open space, especially in a park, where several roads or paths meet.
- (deprecated template usage) (obsolete) concurrence; cooperation
- Barrow
- The divine providence is wont to afford its concourse to such proceeding.
- Barrow
Translations
A large open space in a building where people can gather
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A large group of people; a crowd
The running or flowing together of things; the meeting of things
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