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concourse

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con⋅course

  [kon-kawrs, -kohrs, kong-]
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–noun
1. an assemblage; gathering: a concourse of people.
2. a driveway or promenade, esp. in a park.
3. a boulevard or other broad thoroughfare.
4. a large open space for accommodating crowds, as in a railroad station.
5. an area or grounds for racing, athletic sports, etc.
6. an act or instance of running or coming together; confluence: a concourse of events.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME concours < MF; r. ME concurs < L concursus assembly, verbal n. corresponding to concurrere to assemble, collide. See concur, course
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con·course   (kŏn'kôrs', -kōrs', kŏng'-)   
n.  

  1. A large open space for the gathering or passage of crowds, as in an airport.

  2. A broad thoroughfare.

  3. A great crowd; a throng.

  4. The act of coming, moving, or flowing together.


[Middle English concours, assembly, throng, from Old French, from Latin concursus, from past participle of concurrere, to assemble : com-, com- + currere, to run; see kers- in Indo-European roots.]
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concourse 
1384, from O.Fr. concours, from L. concursus "a running together," from pp. of concurrere (see concur). Originally "the flowing of a crowd of people;" sense of "open space" is Amer.Eng. 1862.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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