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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. a large gathering of people;
[syn: multitude, throng, concourse]

2. a wide hallway in a building where people can walk;

3. a coming together of people;
[syn: concourse, confluence]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

concourse n 1: a large gathering of people [syn: multitude, throng, concourse] 2: a wide hallway in a building where people can walk 3: a coming together of people [syn: concourse, confluence]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

189 Moby Thesaurus words for "concourse": 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