concourse
Noun

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.
  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.
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