Crossword clues for concourse
concourse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Concourse \Con"course\, n. [F. concours, L. concursus, fr. concurrere to run together. See Concur.]
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A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence.
The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter.
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An assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving and meeting in one place.
Amidst the concourse were to be seen the noble ladies of Milan, in gay, fantastic cars, shining in silk brocade.
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The place or point of meeting or junction of two bodies.
The drop will begin to move toward the concourse of the glasses.
--Sir I. Newton. An open space where several roads or paths meet; esp. an open space in a park where several roads meet.
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Concurrence; co["o]peration. [Obs.]
The divine providence is wont to afford its concourse to such proceeding.
--Barrow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Middle French concours, from Latin concursus "a running together," from past participle of concurrere (see concur). Originally "the flowing of a crowd of people;" sense of "open space in a built-up place" is American English, 1862.
Wiktionary
n. 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. 3 The running or flowing together of things; the meeting of things; confluence. 4 An open space, especially in a park, where several roads or paths meet. 5 (context obsolete English) concurrence; cooperation
WordNet
a wide hallway in a building where people can walk
a coming together of people [syn: confluence]
Wikipedia
A concourse is a place where pathways or roads meet, such as in a hotel, a convention center, a railway station, an airport terminal, a hall, or other space.
A concourse is a place where pathways or roads meet.
Concourse may also refer to:
- Concourse House, in Liverpool
- Concourse Plaza Hotel, in the Bronx
- Concourse Program at MIT
- Concourse at Landmark Center, in Atlanta
- Concourse on High, Bahá'í concept
- IND Concourse Line
- Music Concourse, in San Francisco
- The Concourse, Chatswood
- The Concourse, in Singapore
- Winter Street Concourse, in Boston
Usage examples of "concourse".
The entrance they came to was a transparent wall and set of doors opening from a wide pedestrian precinct lined by stores and what looked like office units, rows of display cases, and at the far end a battery of stairs and escalators going up to the concourse of a transportation terminal.
As very considerable numbers of the working classes in Lancashire and Yorkshire had been taught in Sunday-schools, and the Sabbath day was much regarded in that part of the country, the collection of such a vast concourse of persons from great distances, on a day so sacred, created prejudices against the chartist confederacies even in their own strongholds, which, irrespective of every other difficulty, ensured their defeat.
As the troops took up their several positions within the public buildings, they were loudly cheered by the people in the streets, for it was evident, notwithstanding the immense chartist concourse, that an overwhelming majority of the Londoners was opposed to their proceedings.
It was an intimacy unequaled by anything save sexual concourse, and that she had denied herself in order to grasp at the future.
Gathering my carry-ons, I went through the jetport into the terminal, then down the concourse, past the security point to the spot where my driver usually met me.
A moment later a gloom-shrouded figure moved out from beside a tent that housed one of the kootch shows, hurried across the concourse, slipped into the darkness on the far side of the Ferris wheel, no more than twenty feet away from me, reappeared in the moonlight by the Caterpillar.
He patted my shoulder once, and we began to walk again, around the back of the kootch show, around Animal Oddities, between that tent and another, to the concourse, and from there to Gibtown-on-Wheels.
Luxi approached the row of lifts that would drop her on the Garden District concourse.
On the day that they had gunned down my father on the steps of the Shrike Temple in the Lusian Concourse Mall, my mother was covered with his blood -- the reconstructed, Core-augmented DNA of John Keats.
She mulled over the probables as she ducked into side aisles before coming out again onto the Main Concourse, far enough away from the Pakis to be screened by other groups.
He had arrived at the pier and gone to the plateglass windows of the concourse pier building overlooking the submarine tied up at the berth below.
The man with the black curls was by the concourse wall again, his stare seeming as hot as summer sunlight on the scalelike leaves that covered her skin.
The Grey Swords locked shields, ends curling to enclose the Mortal Sword as they readied their last stand in the centre of the concourse.
I was also hoping that George the Skycap had alerted Denver Police and that they would be waiting for Merritt whenever and wherever the system was planning on dumping her in Concourse B.
Bottled up in the concourse, with only narrow passages to escape through, the floodwater surges to lethal heights.