'Concourse' definitions:
Definition of 'concourse'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
A wide hallway in a building where people can walk
noun
A coming together of people [syn: concourse, confluence]
Definition of 'Concourse'
From: GCIDE
- Concourse \Con"course\, n. [F. concours, L. concursus, fr. concurrere to run together. See Concur.]
- 1. A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence. [1913 Webster]
- The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter. --Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving and meeting in one place. [1913 Webster]
- Amidst the concourse were to be seen the noble ladies of Milan, in gay, fantastic cars, shining in silk brocade. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The place or point of meeting or junction of two bodies. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The drop will begin to move toward the concourse of the glasses. --Sir I. Newton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. An open space where several roads or paths meet; esp. an open space in a park where several roads meet. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Concurrence; cooperation. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The divine providence is wont to afford its concourse to such proceeding. --Barrow. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'concourse'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accompaniment,
- accordance,
- affluence,
- afflux,
- affluxion,
- agglomeration,
- agglutination,
- aggregation,
- agreement,
- alliance,
- approach,
- articulation,
- assemblage,
- assemblee,
- assembly,
- assignation,
- association,
- asymptote,
- at home,
- ball,
- bond,
- bottleneck,
- bracketing,
- brawl,
- cahoots,
- call-up,
- canvass,
- caucus,
- census,
- clustering,
- co-working,
- coaction,
- coincidence,
- collaboration,
- collection,
- collectivity,
- colligation,
- collision course,
- collocation,
- colloquium,
- collusion,
- combination,
- combined effort,
- commission,
- committee,
- communication,
- comparison,
- concatenation,
- concentralization,
- concentration,
- concert,
- concerted action,
- conclave,
- concomitance,
- concordance,
- concurrence,
- confluence,
- conflux,
- congeries,
- conglomeration,
- congregation,
- congress,
- conjugation,
- conjunction,
- connection,
- consilience,
- conspiracy,
- conventicle,
- convention,
- convergence,
- converging,
- convocation,
- cooperation,
- copulation,
- corralling,
- correspondence,
- council,
- coupling,
- course,
- crosscurrent,
- crossing,
- current,
- dance,
- data-gathering,
- date,
- defluxion,
- diet,
- downflow,
- downpour,
- drift,
- driftage,
- eisteddfod,
- festivity,
- fete,
- flow,
- flowing,
- fluency,
- flux,
- focalization,
- focus,
- forgathering,
- forum,
- funnel,
- gathering,
- get-together,
- gush,
- hookup,
- housewarming,
- hub,
- inflow,
- ingathering,
- intercommunication,
- intercourse,
- interlinking,
- inventory,
- joinder,
- joining,
- jointure,
- junction,
- juxtaposition,
- knotting,
- levee,
- liaison,
- linkage,
- linking,
- marriage,
- meet,
- meeting,
- merger,
- merging,
- mill run,
- millrace,
- mobilization,
- muster,
- mutual approach,
- narrowing gap,
- onrush,
- onward course,
- outflow,
- pairing,
- panel,
- parasitism,
- party,
- plenum,
- prom,
- quorum,
- race,
- radius,
- rally,
- reception,
- rendezvous,
- rodeo,
- roundup,
- run,
- rush,
- saprophytism,
- seance,
- session,
- set,
- shindig,
- simultaneity,
- sit-in,
- sitting,
- soiree,
- spate,
- splice,
- spokes,
- stream,
- surge,
- survey,
- symbiosis,
- symposium,
- synchronism,
- synergy,
- synod,
- tangent,
- tide,
- tie,
- tie-in,
- tie-up,
- trend,
- turnout,
- undercurrent,
- undertow,
- unification,
- union,
- united action,
- water flow,
- yoking