concourse
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kɔrs, -koʊrs, ˈkɒŋ-
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| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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| —n | |
| 1. | a crowd; throng |
| 2. | a coming together; confluence: a concourse of events |
| 3. | a large open space for the gathering of people in a public place |
| 4. | chiefly (US) a ground for sports, racing, athletics, etc |
| [C14: from Old French concours, ultimately from Latin concurrere to run together, from currere to run] | |
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Word Origin & History
concourse
late 14c., 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.
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Example sentences
The concourse will consist of two levels, a main lower concourse and a balcony upper concourse.
Papers and files removed from the concourse shops at ground zero.
It was the great event of the day, and attracted an immense concourse of people from all parts of the state.
And certainly no thief was to be seen scurrying across the half-empty concourse with a bulky laptop bag slung over a shoulder.
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