concourse (plural concourses)

1. A large open space in or in front of a building where people can gather, particularly one joining various paths, as in a rail station or airport terminal, or providing access to and linking the platforms in a railway terminus.
   • 2018, March 1, Tusdiq Din on BBC Sport, Mohamed Salah: Is Liverpool striker's success improving engagement with Muslim fans? ↗

     In east London in October 2013, during a game between West Ham and Manchester City, a small group of home Muslim fans - with no prayer room available - tried to offer their Maghrib (sunset) prayer on a concourse under the main stand at the club's former home Upton Park.

2. A large group of people; a crowd.
   • 1726 October 27, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], London: Printed for Benj[amin] Motte, […], OCLC 995220039 ↗, (please specify ):

     , 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.

   • 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 ...

   • The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter.

   • 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. (obsolete) concurrence; cooperation

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

• French: hall
• German: Wartehalle, Querbahnsteig (rail terminus)
• Italian: spianata, salone, sala, atrio, androne
• Portuguese: átrio
• Russian: конко́рс
• Spanish: explanada

• Italian: concorso, affluenza, moltitudine, turba
• Portuguese: audiência, multidão
• Russian: толпа́

• Italian: afflusso, concomitanza
• Portuguese: confluência
• Russian: стече́ние