concourse

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)

1. A large open space in a building where people can gather.
2. 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.

3. 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.

4. An open space, especially in a park, where several roads or paths meet.
5. (deprecated template usage) (obsolete) concurrence; cooperation
   • Barrow

     The divine providence is wont to afford its concourse to such proceeding.

Translations

A large open space in a building where people can gather

• French: hall (fr) m
• German: Wartehalle f
• Greek: αίθουσα αναμονής f (aíthousa anamonís)
• Japanese: コンコース (konkōsu)
• Persian: هال،‌راهرو
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• Polish: hala (pl) f
• Russian: конкорс m (konkórs), главный вестибюль вокзала m (glávnyj vestibjúlʹ vokzála), главный зал вокзала m (glávnyj zal vokzála)
• Spanish: explanada f

A large group of people; a crowd

• Bulgarian: тълпа (bg) f (tǎlpá), множество (bg) n (mnóžestvo)
• Latin: turba (la) f, multitudo (la) f
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• Persian: جمعیت، هجوم
• Russian: толпа (ru) f (tolpá), множество (ru) n (mnóžestvo)

The running or flowing together of things; the meeting of things

• Bulgarian: стичане (bg) n (stičane)
• Persian: برخورد، ملاقات
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• Russian: стечение (ru) n (stečénije), скопление (ru) n (skoplénije)