Other forms: concourses
A concourse is the wide open hall inside a station or terminal. The main concourse, meet on the concourse, a crowded concourse.
It is the space people gather and move through before they reach a platform or a gate, and its design is a serious problem in crowd management. Departures concourse and arrivals concourse are the standard signs. The older meaning is a crowd or a flowing together, which is what the word means literally. Note that in American English a concourse can also be a wide road or open space in a park.
1nounconcourseThe wide open hall inside a terminal.
“We waited on the station concourse, staring up at the departures board.”
concourse is a gathering hall.
Latin concursus means a running together — con- plus currere, to run. A concourse is named for the people flowing into it rather than for the building, which is why the word suits a station so well.
Latin
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Middle French
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Middle English
concours
English, today
concourse
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From Middle English concours, from Middle French concours and its etymon Latin concursus, concursum, from concurrō (“to run together”). See concur. a doublet of concours.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA