concourse, confluence
(noun) a coming together of people
concourse
(noun) a wide hallway in a building where people can walk
multitude, throng, concourse
(noun) a large gathering of people
Source: WordNet® 3.1
concourse (plural concourses)
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.
A large group of people; a crowd.
The running or flowing together of things; the meeting of things; confluence.
An open space, especially in a park, where several roads or paths meet.
(obsolete) concurrence; cooperation
In sense "open space", particularly used of indoor spaces, by contrast with plaza, place, square, etc. However, may be used for outdoor spaces as well, primarily high-traffic areas in front of a building.
• (open space): circus, plaza
Source: Wiktionary
Con"course, n. Etym: [F. concours, L. concursus, fr. concurrere to run together. See Concur.]
1. 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. Sir M. Hale.
2. 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. Prescott.
3. The place or point of meeting or junction of two bodies. [Obs.] The drop will begin to move toward the concourse of the glasses. Sir I. Newton.
4. An open space where several roads or paths meet; esp. an open space in a park where several roads meet.
5. Concurrence; coöperation. [Obs.] The divine providence is wont to afford its concourse to such proceeding. Barrow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
11 January 2025
(noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
